Designing a New Organization
re: What about Designing New Organizations? Guidance for “designing a new organisation and not for analysis of an existing one?” (edited) I would add Russell Ackoff to the top of the list of those to...
View ArticleWho Influences Your Thinking?
Comments on Who Influences Your Thinking? – Survey results – > 1. Are people getting most of their information > from other sources? That would be my guess. Similar to the phenomenon of “the long...
View ArticleAckoff, Idealized Design and Bell Labs
Excerpt from Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow’s Crisis…Today by Russell L. Ackoff, Jason Magidson and Herbert J. Addison: How Bell Labs Imagined — and Created — the Telephone System of the...
View ArticleWrite it Down
Why Write it down? The longer I pursue Lean, the more I am amazed with its fundamentals. I may write more about this in the near future. Like the emphasis to write things down. Right on. In meetings...
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Management Blog Posts From January 2006
John Hunter on the top of the Bear’s Hump trail in the park, Waterton, Canada. A great, very steep trail. Agility vs. Six Sigma – “Process improvement should be part of a well run system, as should...
View ArticleDr. Russell Ackoff Webcast on Systems Thinking
Dr. Ackoff is one of two management thinkers that any manager, that is serious about improving management results in their organization, should study (the other is Dr. Deming). There are plenty of...
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Russell L. Ackoff: 1919 -2009
We lost another of the absolutely best minds in management history, this week. Somehow, many managers, do not know of Russell Ackoff’s ideas. I find that amazing. Dr. Ackoff is one of two management...
View ArticleA Theory of a System for Educators and Managers
Excerpts from The Deming Library Volume XXI, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Dr. Russell Ackoff and David Langford demonstrate that educators can begin a quality transformation by developing an understanding...
View ArticleWeb Seminar with Gerald Suarez: Better Thinking About Leadership
In2In offers some great opportunities for those interested in management improvement. Their conference is excellent. They also offer various conference calls with speakers knowledgeable about Deming...
View ArticleAckoff: Corporations Are Not Led By Those Seeking to Maximize Shareholder Value
If I had to limit myself to a handful of management experts, Russel Ackoff would definitely be in that group. Thankfully there is no such limit. Ackoff once again provides great insight with great wit...
View ArticleChildren are Amazingly Creative At Solving Problems
This story at NPR reminded my of Russell Ackoff talking about the creativity kids show in solving problems* – and how school often stifles that creativity. Preschoolers Outsmart College Students In...
View ArticleTransformation and Redesign
Here is an excellent article from 1999: Transformation and Redesign at the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) (pdf link) by March Laree Jacques This article describes an organizational...
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