About the authors of A Little Book of f-LAWS, Management f-LAWS and Systems Thinking for Curious Managers
The
late Russell L. Ackoff was the Anheuser-Busch Emeritus Professor
of Management Science at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
He wrote numerous books on Systems Management, the most recent of which were Beating the System, co-authored with Sheldon Rovin, Re-Designing the Corporation, Ackoff's Best and Idealized Design, co-authored with Jason Magidson and Herbert J. Addison.
A founding member of the Institute of Management Sciences, his work in consulting and education involved more than 350 corporations and 75 government agencies in the United States and beyond. Management grandee, he was ranked 26 in a recent list of the world's most influential business thinkers. Read more about his life here
Herbert J. Addison has worked for some 40 years in academic, educational and business book publishing, including for many years at Oxford University Press.
He is the author of the business section in the New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge and was a close friend of Russ Ackoff.
Sally Bibb is an author, consultant and speaker specialising in employee engagement, trust and organisational change. In 2007 she co-founded the consultancy talentsmoothie, and more recently founded Engaging Minds, an employee engagement consultancy.
Before that, Sally was Director of Group Sales Development for the Economist Group, based in London with responsibility for Europe, Asia and North America. Co-author of the award-winning book Trust Matters - for Organisational and Personal Success, she is series editor for The Truths about Business series and author of The Stone Age Company: why the companies we work for are dying and how they can be saved, the first title in the series.
Jamshid Gharajedaghi, Managing Partner & CEO of INTERACT, is one of the original contributors to the development of the third generation of systems thinking, where iterative, interactive design forms the core of Systems Methodology. He has more than 25 years experience in the application of systems methodology. His work has taken him into corporations and government agencies around the world.
Mr. Gharajedaghi was formerly Adjunct Professor of Systems Sciences and the Director of the Busch Center at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1979-1986). He began his career with IBM's World Trade Corporation where he served as a Senior Systems Engineer (1963-1969). He left IBM to become CEO of the Industrial Management Institute (1969-1979).
Andrew Carey has worked for most of his life in business publishing, as an editorial and marketing consultant with companies like Pearson Publishing, Butterworths, Clement Communications, IBC Business Publishing, Emerald Group Publishing and Strategic Direction Publishing.
As well as writing and contributing to numerous books, journals and newsletters on topics like Systems Thinking, Business Excellence and Change Management. He recently wrote Inside Project Red Stripe, an account of The Economist's much-discussed Internet innovation project, and he currently works at Triarchy Press.