Russ Ackoff's witty and subversive "F/laws of Management" have become well known around the world and are regularly recommended as an introduction to his thinking. They cover areas like leadership, teams, hierarchy, creativity and innovation, motivation and management.
(Critics regularly point out that most of the thinking behind his F/laws is developed in more detail in his earlier books. They're right. In publishing the F/laws, Russ Ackoff was unashamedly trying to reach a wider audience - 'regular managers' in 'regular businesses' who would never otherwise read about Systems Thinking.)
Each of the 122 F/laws challenges a received wisdom about management and will get you thinking about the realities of work and organisations: what really motivates managers, why companies are run the way they are, what PR is really trying to do ...
Each F/law comes with a page (or so) of Russ Ackoff's own explanation - often wandering into delightfully unexpected areas.
This is the only full collection of all Ackoff's F/laws - which were first published in two separate books (Management f-Laws and Systems Thinking for Curious Managers.) This hardback collection reverts to Ackoff's original typescript without any commentary or other introduction and features his original cartoons.
- ISBN10 1908009543
- ISBN13 9781908009548
- Publish Date 29 November 2011
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Triarchy Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 292
- Language English