A Little Book of f-LAWS

Imprint: Triarchy Press
Published: 2006
Extent: 32pp.
Size: 11 x 17.5 cm
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9550081-1-5
List Price: £5.00
Tags: Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Russell Ackoff, f-laws, management, organization design

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Paperback:

A Little Book of f-LAWS:
13 Common Sins of Management
Russell L. Ackoff, Herbert J. Addison and Sally Bibb

Taken from Management f-LAWS, the 13 f-LAWS featured in this little red book are an introduction to Ackoff's thinking about management.

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Russell Ackoff, who died in 2009, was one of the world's leading business thinkers and one of the founding fathers of Systems Thinking. His Management f-Laws (a term coined by Ackoff) expose the conventions and laws of management, the hierarchies and power struggles, the ineptitudes and time-wasting, the prejudices and careless thinking as flaws of management: all of which hinder successful strategies for organizational change and development.

Read more about his life here

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Sample f-Law

By the same author:

Ackoff's F/Laws: The Cake
Differences that Make a Difference
Memories
Management f-Laws
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers

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Readership

Anyone who works in an organisation, anywhere

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