@dajb Mike Jackson's ideas were good and still valid but hardly rocket science; more process than systems thinking in the larger scheme of things (systems plural).
Take a look at the history of software version control systems and in particular the story of git and the genius of its author (& ideally the brilliance of the algorithm & it's application) for real (consequential, epic) thinking about systems.
Fred Brooks' Mythical Man Month is an enduring and canonical text of uncommon sense.
@dajb Mintzberg is very good. My favourite demolition of a lot of purported excellence and genius of people who attribute success to strategy is Fooled by Randomness by Nicholas Nassim Taleb. Highly entertaining, opinionated and right, even if he also has a monstrous ego.
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