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Management f-LAWS:
How Organizations Really Work 
Russell L. Ackoff, Herbert J. Addison and Sally Bibb  
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Management f-LAWS:
How Organizations Really Work 

Russell L. Ackoff, Herbert J. Addison and Sally Bibb 

We've all heard of Sod's Law (also known as Murphy's Law) - If anything can go wrong, it will.

Most of us know Parkinson's Law – Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Management f-LAWS: How Organizations Really Work brings together a collection of Professor Russell Ackoff’s subversive insights into the world of business.

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. 
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With wit and wisdom, Ackoff and his co-author Herbert Addison set out the uncomfortable truth about the way organizations really work – and get us thinking about how to change our own organizations and management practices for the better.

In response, Sally Bibb – author, Director of Group Sales Development for the Economist Group and an enthusiastic pioneer of the learning organization – examines and challenges their ironic and provocative claims.

The resulting conversation crosses cultural, status, gender and age divides and will appeal to readers at every level of the organizational hierarchy as well as to those who have resisted being part of it altogether.

Management f-Laws: How Organizations Really Work contains more than 80 f-Laws. It’s one of those books that can grace the coffee table in the reception area. It won’t be out of place on the bedside table. But it should most definitely be on your desk. Dip into it, and on any page you’ll find something to laugh or argue about but, above all, to take on board.

Readership

Anyone who works in an organisation, anywhere.

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