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Ackoffs Fables: Irreverent Reflections on Business and Bureaucracy

Russell L. Ackoff (Author)

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Product Description

The author summarizes his experience as a management consultant in a series of fables designed to expose narrow thinking, muddle-headedness and complacency in business. He has previously written "Management in Small Doses" and "The Art of Problem Solving".

From the Publisher

``Nothing is as obstructive to satisfaction of human needs and desires, let alone human progress, as bureaucracies.'' So goes Russell Ackoff's philosophy on human development. While relating wry observations made during a long career promoting human development, Ackoff demonstrates how most systems created to foster development actually prevent or retard it. You'll laugh at these war stories, but more importantly, you'll learn how to maximize your own personal development or that of your company by beating obstructive systems.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; First Edition edition (April 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471531944
• ISBN-13: 978-0471531944
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

irreverent

adj.

1. Lacking or exhibiting a lack of reverence; disrespectful.

[形]不敬な, 非礼な

an irreverent reply
不敬な返答.

1. Critical of what is generally accepted or respected; satirical: irreverent humor.

irreverently ir·rev'er·ent·ly adv.