{"id":656,"date":"2007-02-21T21:09:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/russ-ackoff-interview-and-some-f-laws\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T08:11:47","slug":"russ-ackoff-interview-and-some-f-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2007\/02\/russ-ackoff-interview-and-some-f-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Russ Ackoff interview and some f-laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"float:left; MARGIN: 10px\" src='http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-content\/images\/ccguru1.gif' alt='f-laws' \/><br \/>\nAn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/core\/Content\/displayPrintable.jhtml;jsessionid=IBQQDC4NL0FM1QFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=\/money\/2007\/02\/08\/ccbguru08.xml&#038;site=1&#038;page=0\">article in the Telegraph<\/a>, reporting from an encounter and interview with Russell Ackoff, grand-father of systems thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Some gems include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea that you can improve a business by focusing on just part of it is plain wrong, Ackoff says. In fact, it&#8217;s more serious than that: attempted &#8220;improvements&#8221; can actually make everything else worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is futility in doing things in isolation,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You can actually destroy a system by improving just a part of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t call it consulting,&#8221; he states firmly. &#8220;We make a distinction between consulting and being an educator. A consultant goes in with a solution. He tries to impose it on a situation. An educator tries to train the people responsible for the work to work it out for themselves. We don&#8217;t pretend to know the way to get the answer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worthwhile read, and mend the F-Laws of Management, his new book looks promising:<\/p>\n<p>Management f-Laws \u2013 How Organisations Really Work by Russell L Ackoff and Herbert J Addison, with considered responses by Sally Bibb, is published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triarchypress.co.uk\/pages\/book3.htm\">Triarchy Press<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.f-laws.com\/content\/sample_f-law.php\">sample<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f-laws.com\/pdf\/A_Little_Book_of_F-LawsE.pdf\">free pdf sample<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the Telegraph, reporting from an encounter and interview with Russell Ackoff, grand-father of systems thinking. Some gems include: The idea that you can improve a business by focusing on just part of it is plain wrong, Ackoff says. In fact, it&#8217;s more serious than that: attempted &#8220;improvements&#8221; can actually make everything else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,8],"tags":[3,84,104,564,1022,461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}