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Management f-LAWS:
How Organizations Really Work
by Russell L. Ackoff, Herbert J. Addison and Sally Bibb
Publication date: 25 January 2007
Number of pages: 180
Book type: Paperback
ISBN: 0-9550081-2-3
List price: £20.00
Inspection Copy for lecturers
For customers in North America, books are printed in, and shipped from, the USA.
We've all heard of Sod's Law (also known as Murphy's Law) - If anything can go wrong, it will.
Most of us know Parkinson's Law – Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Now Management f-LAWS: How Organizations Really Work brings together a collection of Professor Russell Ackoff’s subversive insights into the world of business.
Russell Ackoff is one of the world’s leading business thinkers and one of the founding fathers of Systems Thinking. His Management f-Laws (a term coined by Ackoff) expose the conventions and laws of management – the hierarchies and power struggles, the ineptitudes and time-wasting, the prejudices and careless thinking – as flaws of management: all of which hinder successful strategies for organizational change and development.
With wit and wisdom, Ackoff and his co-author Herbert Addison set out the uncomfortable truth about the way organizations really work – and get us thinking about how to change our own organizations and management practices for the better.
In response, Sally Bibb – author, Director of Group Sales Development for the Economist Group and an enthusiastic pioneer of the learning organization – examines and challenges their ironic and provocative claims.
The resulting conversation crosses cultural, status, gender and age divides and will appeal to readers at every level of the organizational hierarchy as well as to those who have resisted being part of it altogether.
To be published in January 2007, Management f-Laws: How Organizations Really Work contains more than 80 f-Laws. It’s one of those books that can grace the coffee table in the reception area. It won’t be out of place on the bedside table. But it should most definitely be on your desk. Dip into it, and on any page you’ll find something to laugh or argue about but, above all, to take on board.
Visit our f-Laws website to:
- read more about the authors
- read a sample f-Law
- read early reviews of the book
- find out about ordering personalised copies for your organization
