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Product Description: Russell Ackoff's long and distinguished career as the doyen of Design and Systems Thinking was built around a collection of deceptively simple-but often overlooked-principles and observations. In Differences That Make a Difference-the last of his many books-Ackoff determined to distill the wisdom of a lifetime into a "glossary" that would be easily accessible to managers, employees, students, and academics alike...read more

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9781908009012 | Triarchy Pr, December 9, 2010, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Russell Ackoff's long and distinguished career as the doyen of Design and Systems Thinking was built around a collection of deceptively simple-but often overlooked-principles and observations.

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9780956537973 | Triarchy Pr, October 21, 2010, cover price $25.00

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 manage businesses, what makes managers tick... and how we can make things work better.

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9780955008122 | Triarchy Pr, January 30, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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 manage businesses, what makes managers tick.

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9780131963634 | 1 edition (Wharton School Pub, July 7, 2006), cover price $34.99

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9780137071111 | Financial Times Management, April 20, 2006, cover price $27.99

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Product Description: NUEVECITO, RETRACTILADO ORIGINAL, EXCELENTE, DE MÉXICO CON AMOR MISMO DÍA SI RECIBO SU PEDIDO POR LA MAÑANA EN DÍAS HÁBILES

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9789681805708 | Italian edition edition (Editorial Limusa S.A. De C.V., June 30, 2005), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: NUEVECITO, RETRACTILADO ORIGINAL, EXCELENTE, DE MÉXICO CON AMOR MISMO DÍA SI RECIBO SU PEDIDO POR LA MAÑANA EN DÍAS HÁBILES

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9789681812942 | Italian edition edition (Editorial Limusa S.A. De C.V., June 30, 2005), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: BOOKS IN SPANISH

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Filled with real-life examples of abusive behavior and strategies for confronting it, this guide to overcoming the worst attributes of organizations uses anecdotes to demonstrate how abusive people and practices might be corrected. Original.

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9781576753309 | Berrett-Koehler Pub, May 31, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Filled with real-life examples of abusive behavior and strategies for confronting it, this guide to overcoming the worst attributes of organizations uses anecdotes to demonstrate how abusive people and practices might be corrected.

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Product Description: 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 discussion, using systems theory to develop new approaches to governance, the structure and function of our cities, and civic leadership in general...read more

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9780804747943 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Health care, education, welfare, law—the perceived success or failure of these social institutions is constantly being debated in the public arena.

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Product Description: PROFESIONAL

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9789681831936 | Editorial Limusa S.A. De C.V., January 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: PROFESIONAL

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Product Description: Visión general de las obras de Russell Ackoff El pensamiento de Russell Ackoff hace referencia a los procesos de comunicación en el seno de los sistemas, sus objetivos teóricos se apoyan en sólidas formulaciones y herramientas metodológicas, orientan preferentemente hacia el ámbito de las organizaciones empresariales...read more

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9789681801472 | Editorial Limusa S.A. De C.V., January 1, 2002, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Visión general de las obras de Russell Ackoff El pensamiento de Russell Ackoff hace referencia a los procesos de comunicación en el seno de los sistemas, sus objetivos teóricos se apoyan en sólidas formulaciones y herramientas metodológicas, orientan preferentemente hacia el ámbito de las organizaciones empresariales.

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9780195123876 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 29, 1999, cover price $50.00
9789990129069 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

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Product Description: 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 approaches do not work very well, says Russell Ackoff, because they only attack the problem piecemeal--and it is the entire system of American business that is flawed...read more

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9780195087277 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 30, 1994, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: 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.

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The author uses fables to illustrate solutions to organizational problems

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9780471531944 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author uses fables to illustrate solutions to organizational problems

Fifty-two brief essays discuss the effectiveness of advertising, breaking company rules, corporate mission statements, productivity, and employee incentives

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9780471848226 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Fifty-two brief essays discuss the effectiveness of advertising, breaking company rules, corporate mission statements, productivity, and employee incentives

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9780471617655 | Reprint edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 1, 1989), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Fifty-two brief essays discuss the effectiveness of advertising, breaking company rules, corporate mission statements, productivity, and employee incentives

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9780471856566 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | also contains The Performance Management Reboot: Ditch a Broken System & Power Up Your People

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Examines the problem solving process, discusses objectives, variables, and causal relationships, and shows how a variety of actual problems were resolved (view table of contents)

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9780471042891 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, June 1, 1978, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Examines the problem solving process, discusses objectives, variables, and causal relationships, and shows how a variety of actual problems were resolved

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9780471858089, titled "The Art of Problem Solving Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables" | John Wiley & Sons Inc, January 1, 1987, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Examines the problem solving process, discusses objectives, variables, and causal relationships, and shows how a variety of actual problems were resolved

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Book by Ackoff, Russell L., Broholm, Paul, Snow, Roberta

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9780875896090 | 1 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, December 1, 1984), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Book by Ackoff, Russell L.

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9780783725093 | Proquest Info & Learning, December 1, 1984, cover price $72.00

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Product Description: 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 development of work and work organizations and to put in perspective the short-term dilemmas today’s manager must face puts him in a class of explainer populated by the likes of Harry Levinson and Lewis Thomas…...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780471882138 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, January 1, 1984, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 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 development of work and work organizations and to put in perspective the short-term dilemmas today’s manager must face puts him in a class of explainer populated by the likes of Harry Levinson and Lewis Thomas….

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Outlines ideas and methods by which managers can prepare for future corporate developments, offering advice on problems, opportunities, objectives, resources, and planning decisions and processes (view table of contents)

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9780471090090 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 1, 1981, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: Outlines ideas and methods by which managers can prepare for future corporate developments, offering advice on problems, opportunities, objectives, resources, and planning decisions and processes

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Product Description: This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior û as a system of purposeful (teleological) events. It uses a systems theoretical approach for the study of these phenomena, and illustrates and extends general systems theory...read more

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9780914105008 | Intersystems Pubns, June 1, 1972, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior û as a system of purposeful (teleological) events.

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