Beating The System - Using Creativity To Outsmart Bureaucracies by Ackoff - ISBN: 9781576753309
Paperback
This book is for anyone who has faced the bureaucratic blank wall. The authors explain how systems are designed, how they function (and, particularly, malfunction), where their weaknesses are, and the incentives that drive them - as well as how to be creative in beating a system.

Beating The System - Using Creativity To Outsmart Bureaucracies

Using Creativity to Outsmart Bureaucracies

  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2018

Summary

When was the last time you dealt with a bureaucracy-the phone company, an airline, a hospital, school, or government agency-and got what you wanted without weaving through a maze of infuriating hand-offs? Have you found these systems to be utterly indifferent to the inconvenience or hardship they cause?Russell Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin say, “Enough is enough!” They have extensively studied organizational systems-how they function and malfunction, what drives them, and where their weaknesses ar…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781576753309
ISBN-10:1576753301
Author:Ackoff
Publisher:Berrett-Koehler
Imprint:Berrett-Koehler
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:1 January 2018
Weight:231g
Dimensions:85mm x 55mm x 6mm
Series:Berrett-koehler
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“I loved the book and read every blessed word of it, savored it, and recommended it to virtually every sentient person I know who works in an organized setting.” —Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Management at USC and author of On Becoming a Leader and Geeks and Geezers “No one has contributed more to systems thinking in management than Russell Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin. Who better to offer a lifetime of insight into how systems work and how to keep them from preventing creative work?” —Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and Founding Chair, Society for Organizational Learning ”Two of the most thoughtful people on Systems Thinking have taken the courageous step of pointing out what you can do when the entity or activity in which you are seeking a product or service is not operating at the level of systemic interaction the authors have spent much of their lives attempting to create.” —Vincent P. Barabba, former General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development, General Motors

About The Author

Ackoff

Russell L. Ackoff is Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.Sheldon Rovin is Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Systems at the Wharton School of Business.

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