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Russell Ackoff

Russell Ackoff's website (official or not) http://www.acasa.upenn.edu/rlacv.htm
subjects Russell Ackoff writes about Organization, Trends and Future, General Management
Russell Ackoff's profile Anheuser Busch Professor Emeritus of management science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ackoff has authored over 20 books and 250 articles, and has conducted research for more than 300 corporations and government agencies. His most recent book is Re-Creating the Corporation, Oxford University Press, (1999)


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Beating the System: Using Creativity to Outsmart Bureaucracies
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When was the last time you dealt with a bureaucracy—the phone company, an airline, a hospital, school, or government agency—and got what you wanted without weaving through a maze of...

Ranking at Amazon 281559
 Berrett-Koehler Pub
 April 2005 - Paperback
 Organization
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Redesigning Society
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Health care, education, welfare, law—the perceived success or failure of these social institutions is constantly being debated in the public arena. In this book, Ackoff and Rovin join the...

Ranking at Amazon 2116090
 Stanford Univ
 June 2003 - Hardcover
 Non-profit & Government
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Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century
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Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been...

Ranking at Amazon 870105
 Oxford University Press
 July 1999 - Hardcover
 Organization Design
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Ackoff's Best : His Classic Writings on Management
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Russell Ackoff is a very special management thinker. As an architect, city planner, doctor of philosophy, behavioral scientist, trailblazer in the fields of organizational, operations, and systems...

Ranking at Amazon 484723
 John Wiley & Sons
 February 1999 - Hardcover
 General Management
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The Leader's Handbook: Making Things Happen, Getting Things Done
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Lead your organization into the 21st century with the help of this groundbreaking book that is already creating a stir in corporate boardrooms across America! In a book that does for managers what his

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 McGraw Hill
 December 1997 - Spiral-bound
 Leadership
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The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success
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We all know that American business needs fixing, and there is no shortage of prescriptions: imitate the Japanese, or follow the example of successful firms, or practice right-sizing. But these...

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 Oxford University Press
 June 1994 - Hardcover
 Organization
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Ackoffs Fables: Irreverent Reflections on Business and Bureaucracy
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``Nothing is as obstructive to satisfaction of human needs and desires, let alone human progress, as bureaucracies.'' So goes Russell Ackoff's philosophy on human development. While relating wry...

Ranking at Amazon 2010727
 John Wiley & Sons
 March 1991 - Hardcover
 Organization
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The Art of Problem Solving : Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables
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"A witty, literate and, most of all, convincing reflection.[Ackoff] shines an often bright light into corners where problems hide, showing the manager how to understand the consequences of his own...

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 John Wiley & Sons
 March 1987 - Paperback
 Problem Solving
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Management in Small Doses
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Written by a renowned teacher, consultant and writer, here are 52 vignettes that deal with topics relating to day-to-day situations that every senior and middle manager will recognize. Provocative,...

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 John Wiley & Sons
 August 1986 - Paperback
 General Management
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A Guide to Controlling Your Corporation's Future
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Praise for Russell Ackoff’s previous book: Creating the Corporate Future &146;Russell Ackoff is a compelling and thoughtful writer…His ability to think in historical terms about the...

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 John Wiley & Sons
 January 1984 - Paperback
 Trends and Future
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