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An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual And Social Behavior As a System of Purposeful Events
This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior as a system of purposeful (teleological) events. It uses a system...
Plan or be Planned For
Here's why thousands of readers in business and management turn to Russell Ackoff for innovative and effective ideas: "Russell Ackoff has probably inf...
His Classic Writings on Management
Russell Ackoff is a very special management thinker. As an architect, city planner, doctor of philosophy, behavioral scientist, trailblazer in the fie...
Putting Education Back on Track
In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, inst...
A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century
Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full thir...
Irreverent Reflections on Business and Bureaucracy
In this insightful new book, bestselling author Russell Ackoff speaks out on everything from personal development and beating the system, to problem s...
Optimizing Applied Research Decisions
Intended to improve the skill of the scientist in the conduct of inquiry....
A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success
We all know that American business needs fixing, and there is no shortage of prescriptions: imitate the Japanese, or follow the example of successful ...
Praise for Russell Ackoff’s previous book: Creating the Corporate Future &146;Russell Ackoff is a compelling and thoughtful writer…His ability to ...
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Ackoff gives the reader 52 small doses of sound management thinking, delivered with characteristic Ackoff wit, humor and clarity....
From analyzing birth rates in India, to a fireside chat with the Queen of Iran, to introducing theme parks to the US, this book collects stories that ...
A New Agenda for Business and Government