Systems Thinking for Curious Managers
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers:
With 40 new Management f-LAWS by Russell L. Ackoff
with Herbert J. Addison and Andrew Carey
Foreword by Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers is the latest and, sadly, the last collection of Russ Ackoff's inimitable f-LAWS to be published.
Written and agreed before his death, it features more than 40 new and previously unpublished f-LAWS. Each one is accompanied by the sharp, sometimes self-deprecating, sometimes witheringly acerbic and always insightful commentary that we have come to expect from the 'Dean of Systems Thinking'.
Alongside these new f-LAWS, the book contains the 81 f-LAWS from the first collection (just the f-LAWS, without Russ's commentary or Sally Bibb's responses).
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers
With 40 new Management f-LAWS.
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The new book also includes an extended essay written by Andrew Carey (and also agreed with Russ Ackoff before his death) which outlines Ackoff's approach to Systems Thinking and Interactive Design and ties them in to his collection of f-LAWS. For anyone new to Ackoff's work or simply looking for a guide to Systems Thinking in organisations, this is the ideal starting point.
The book also includes a moving tribute to Russ Ackoff in the Foreword by his long-time friend and business partner Jamshid Gharajedaghi.
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers is published in March 2010 with pre-publication copies available for dispatch in February.
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