Russell L. Ackoff, Herbert J. Addison, Sally Bibb.
Management f-Laws: how organizations really work.
Triarchy Press. 2007
We’ve ail heard of Sod’s Law. Most of us know Parkinson’s Law.
Now Management f-LAWS brings together a collection of Professor Russell Ackoff’s
subversive insights about the world of business. Russell Ackoff is one of the world’s top
business brains and his f-Laws expose the established 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 change and development.
With wit and wisdom, Ackoff and his co-author, Herbert Addison, set out the uncomfortable truth about how 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 change – examines and challenges their ironic and provocative claims.
The resulting conversation will appeal to readers at every level of the organizational hierarchy as well as those who resist hierarchy altogether.