Eclecticity (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Wally Bock offered his readers a fitting memorial to Dr. Russell Ackoff. None of the leading business press even noticed his passing. I only found out today through Wally's blog. I had the privilege of meeting him year ago at a day-long workshop with him. Wonderful mind. Wonderful man. I got a pix taken with him that I simply must track down. This is a wonderful book of his. Management...
Extreme Saving (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Peter Day's World of Business podcast is a great way to keep with current trends in business. GlobalBiz: Russell Ackoff: 16 Nov 09 To mark his recent death, Peter Day revisits an interview he did 2 years ago with Russell Ackoff, Professor Emeritus of the Wharton School in Operations Research and Systems Theory. His f-Laws expose the common flaws in both the practice of leadership...
In Business (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
To mark his recent death, Peter Day revisits an interview he did 2 years ago with Russell Ackoff, Professor Emeritus of the Wharton School in Operations Research and Systems Theory. His f-Laws expose the common flaws in both the practice of leadership and in the established beliefs that surround it. Producer: Richard Berenger Editor: Stephen Chilcott
Wirearchy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
. Russell Ackoff was one of the great management thinkers. He consistently brought a systems thinking perspective to business and organizational issues. Russell Ackoff was one of my major inspirations for a long time. He will be missed. Via the Financial Times … . Fond farewell to a brilliant thinker By Stefan Stern The scene is Detroit, a training room at the [...]...
Balanced Scorecard (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Faleceu o pai do pensamento sistémico. . " Russell L. Ackoff - 1919 - 2009 "
Jose Rodrigo's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Just heard the news that Russell Ackoff passed away on the 29/10/2009... My first thoughts went back to Hull, where I had the pleasure and honour to meet him. He was very friendly, straight and challenging. You could not stop questioning yourself after listening to him... When I first met him and told him about my PhD, he asked me straight away: "So why do you think your planning...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The world lost a very great man this past Thursday. So great, in fact, that the only person I can compare him to is Einstein. And that's because this man - Russell L. Ackoff , Professor Emeritus of The Wharton School - transformed the world of problem solving just as Albert Einstein transformed he world of science. Russ was my friend and mentor for the last 10 years and was 90 years old...
Forbes (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Russell Ackoff revolutionized the way companies handle management.
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Speaking of the power of "and," here is a treat: Russell Ackoff on systems thinking here and then here and then here.
Conversation Agent (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... you need to make tonight, every day and every week. Dan Pink quotes the recently departed Russell Ackoff (emphasis mine): “All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter! If you do the right thing wrong...
Daniel Pink (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Management theorist Russell Ackoff passed away late last month, leaving behind a lifetime of memorable insights. Here’s one of my favorite, reprised in a good WSJ story about Ackoff’s life and legacy. “All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It [...]
Yours for Good Fermentables ™ (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... specializes in retrieval: http://bit.ly/2sQV19 2009.11.12 An appreciation of management theorist Russell Ackoff who advised businesses including Anheuser-Busch: http://bit.ly/1OxdPP 2009.11.12 Archiving shortened urls. Storing internet links at the Internet archive: http://bit.ly/3LHAKx 2009.11.12 A New Year's gift for Virginia/Washington, D.C./Maryland good beer fans: Tupper's Hop...
Akkam's Razor (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
I saw this retweeted quote (via Twitter from Frank Roche) attributed to the recently deceased Russell Ackoff: "It is better to use imprecise measures of what is wanted, rather than precise measures of what is not." On an intersecting tangent, I saw the below at John Baldoni's Leadership at Work the Harvard Business Blog regarding a [...]
Balanced Scorecard (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... of a single part. Complex problems do not have simple solutions .”" . Trechos sobre Russell Ackoff " Fond farewell to a brilliant thinker "
