Russell L Ackoff: 3 books
Re-Creating the Corporation
A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1999
Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world's foremost pioneers,...
Turning Learning Right Side Up
Putting Education Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy they ought...
The Puritan Gift
Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
The collapse of Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street institutions sent shock waves around the world. But this was just the beginning. Whole nations have been dragged to the brink of bankruptcy. Banks on both sides of the Atlantic have been nationalised. The stock market is out of control and the...