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Russell L. Ackoff • Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management
The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
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Corporations tend to collect activities that they do not have the competence or even the inclination to run well.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
I have no interest in forecasting the future, only in creating it by acting appropriately in the present.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
in this book considerable attention is given to learning and adaptation. However, because control of change is preferable to responsiveness to it,…
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Russell L. Ackoff • Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management
Problems are disciplinary in nature. Effective research is not disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary; it is transdisciplinary. Systems thinking is holistic; it attempts to derive understanding of parts from the behavior and properties of wholes, rather than derive the behavior and properties of wholes from those of their parts.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
The fundamental problem is the reality around the executive. Unless he changes it by deliberate action, the flow of events will determine what he is concerned with and what he does.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
choose a problem which has been tackled before, with little or no success. This ensures that a systemic dynamic is at play.