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      Designing a National Scientific and Technological Communication System: The SCATT Report

      Contributors: Russell L. Ackoff, Martin C. J. Elton, Thomas A Cowan, James C. Emery, Peter Davis, Marybeth L. Meditz, Wladimer M. Sachs. With the collaboration of William C. Donovan, Mohammad…

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      Creating the Corporate Future: Plan and be Planned for

      Russell L. Ackoff

      Presents a participative, systems approach to corporate development, called Interactive Planning. Shows how to formulate the problems and opportunities of corporate growth, as well as presenting objectives and ideals to…

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      Ackoff’s Best: His Classic Writings on Business

      Russell L. Ackoff

      Executives, managers, and students have been familiar with Russ Ackoff since the 1940s.

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      The Art of Problem Solving: accompanied by Ackoff’s Fables

      Russell L. Ackoff

      Adopts a new approach to overcoming the deficiencies of a purely scientific approach to managerial decision making. The principle obstructions to creative problem solving are examined with methods for their…

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      Planning for Human Systems: Essays in Honor of Russell L. Ackoff

      Russell Lincoln Ackoff is a recognized authority in the field of operations research and systems theory. This volume is divided into four major sections. The first deals with Ackoff’s intellectual…

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      Ackoff’s F/laws: The Cake

      Russell L. Ackoff,Herbert J. Addison

      This is the first and only full collection of all 122 of Russell Ackoff’s f/laws - previously only available in two separate Triarchy Press books.

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      Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century

      Russell L. Ackoff (Chairman, Chairman, Institute for Interactive Management)

      A comprehensive overview of the thought of one of the most important management thinkers today. Explains the author’s pioneering work applying systems thinking to the problems of organizations as they…

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      Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track

      Russell L. Ackoff,Daniel Greenberg

      In the year’s most provocative conversation, legendary systems scientist Dr. Ackoff and education innovator Greenberg offer a radically new path forward and take on the very deepest questions about education…

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      A Prologue to National Development Planning

      Jamshid Gharajedaghi,Russell L. Ackoff

      External and internal efforts to help developing countries achieve growth and economic stability, based on Western models, have resulted in frustration at best and in the creation of serious new…

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      Differences That Make a Difference: An Annotated Glossary of Distinctions Important in Management

      Russell Ackoff

      Of interest to managers, employees, students, and academics alike, this title intends to dissolve some of the many disputes in professional and private life that revolve around meaning and (mis)understanding.

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      The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos

      Kenneth Hopper,William Hopper

      Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? This title traces the origins and the characteristics of American…

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      The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success

      Russell L. Ackoff (Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School; Principal, Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School; Principal, The Institute for Interactive Management)

      This book describes the organizational and managerial ways in which firms can overtake and pass other firms. Ackoff stresses the concept of quality of life within an organization, and outlines…

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      On Purposeful Systems: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events

      Russell L. Ackoff,Fred E. Emery

      This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior u as a system of purposeful (teleological) events

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      A Little Book of F-laws: 13 Common Sins of Management

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

      Helps you find out the uncomfortable truths about how organizations really work, what’s wrong with the way we design and manage businesses, what makes managers tick… and how we can…

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      Memories

      Russell L. Ackoff

      From analyzing birth rates in India, to a fireside chat with the Queen of Iran, to introducing theme parks to the US, this book collects stories that lay bare the…

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      Memories

      Russell L. Ackoff

      From analyzing birth rates in India, to a fireside chat with the Queen of Iran, to introducing theme parks to the US, this book collects stories that lay bare the…

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      Management F-laws: How Organizations Really Work

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

      Presents a collection of more than 80 of business guru, Russell Ackoff’s management f-laws: the uncomfortable truths about how organizations really work, what’s wrong with the way we design and…

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      Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: With 40 New Management F-Laws

      Russell L. Ackoff

      Introduces the world of Systems Thinking and its ‘Dean’, Russell Ackoff, to curious and enquiring managers, teachers, business people, and those who work in an organisation. This book presents 40…

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      Operations Research

      Russell L Maurice W Ackoff Sasieni

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      Operations Research: Eine Einfuhrung in Die Unternehmensforschung

      C West Churchman,Russel L Ackoff,E Leonard Arnoff

      Scientia nova veroeffentlicht Originalarbeiten bahnbrechender Forscher oder allgemeinverstandliche Einfuhrungen in schwierige Spezialgebiete, die fur die Philosophie, Logik und Mathematik von ebenso grosser Bedeutung sind, wie fur die Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften…

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