Russell Ackoff - Böcker

"A witty, literate and, most of all, convincing reflection.[Ackoff] shines an often bright light into corners where problems hide, showing the manager how to understand the consequences of his own behavior; identify real, rather than supposed...

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Russell Ackoff is a very special management thinker. As an architect, city planner, doctor of philosophy, behavioral scientist, trailblazer in the fields of organizational, operations, and systems theory, bestselling author, distinguished Wharton ...

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This gem of a book introduces the extraordinary world of Systems Thinking and its 'Dean', Russell Ackoff, to curious and enquiring managers, teachers, business people - anyone, anywhere who works in an organisation. Finished just before Professor ...

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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, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many sch...

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This book describes the organizational and managerial ways in which firms can overtake and pass other firms. Ackoff stresses the concept of "quality of life" within an organization, and outlines three major ways this can be achieved.

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A comprehensive overview of the thought of one of the most important management thinkers today. Explains the author's pioneering work applying systems thinking to the problems of organizations as they face the next millennium.

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We all know that American business needs fixing, and there is no shortage of prescriptions: imitate the Japanese, or follow the example of successful firms, or practice right-sizing. But these approaches do not work very well, says Russell Ackoff,...

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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 third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark ...

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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 third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark ...

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Here's why thousands of readers in business and management turn to Russell Ackoff for innovative and effective ideas: "Russell Ackoff has probably influenced more managers than any other living person.. Two of his books, Scientific Method (19...

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Health care, education, welfare, law - the perceived success or failure of these social institutions is constantly being debated in the public arena. In this book, Ackoff and Rovin join the discussion, using systems theory to develop new approache...

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Contributors: Russell L. Ackoff, Martin C. J. Elton, Thomas A Cowan, James C. Emery, Peter Davis, Marybeth L. Meditz, Wladimer M. Sachs. With the collaboration of William C. Donovan, Mohammad Jahani, and Jonathan V. Rosenhead.

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Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? "e;The Puritan Gift"e; traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of ...

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Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? "e;The Puritan Gift"e; traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of ...

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This subversive little book contains 13 of Russell Ackoff's "Management f-Laws". They give you a taste of his ironic take on how organizations really work, not how they think that they work. These epigrams are unspoken laws and unconvent...

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Russell Ackoff is one of the world's top business brains. Herbert Addison has worked for years in business book publishing. Sally Bibb is a pioneer of organizational change. Who better to zero in on organizations, take them apart and then suggest ...

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For the late Russell Ackoff, the important principles and qualities on which his work was based - clear-sightedness, looking at the bigger picture, working backwards to dissolve problems, radicalism - crossed over into most, if not all, other aspe...

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Contributors: Russell L. Ackoff, Martin C. J. Elton, Thomas A Cowan, James C. Emery, Peter Davis, Marybeth L. Meditz, Wladimer M. Sachs. With the collaboration of William C. Donovan, Mohammad Jahani, and Jonathan V. Rosenhead.

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Russell Ackoff's long and distinguished career as the doyen of Design and Systems Thinking was built around a collection of deceptively simple - but often overlooked - principles and observations. In "Differences That Make a Difference" ...

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This is the first full collection of all 122 of Russell Ackoff's f/laws - previously only available in two separate books from Triarchy Press (Management f-Laws and Systems Thinking for Curious Managers.) Each f/law in this full collection is acco...

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