Ackoffs Best: His Classic Writings On Management; Author: Ackoff, Russell Lincoln; Hardback; Book

Author: Ackoff, Russell Lincoln
Hardback; Book; Illustrations
368 pages
Published: March 1999
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 0471316342

Drawing upon his previous books published by Wiley, Russ Ackoff, the prolific author and imaginative consultant and teacher, brings together his most enduring pieces to create Ackoff's Best. Ackoff's cogent exploration of systems planning and its effect on business is the backbone of this collection and his essays range in scope from corporate planning and understanding the difference between growth and development to recent work on applying systems thinking to small teams, showing how to make them more effective. A rich compilation of the most witty, controversial, and insightful work, Ackoff's Best argues for the value of a systems approach in the corporate organization and in business in general.Classic Writings on Business and Management.Ackoff became prominent for his pioneering work in operations research and systems analysis and his cogent exploration of systems and planning, with their effects on business, form the backbone of this collection.