Russell L. Ackoff Quotes
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Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative…
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To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
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The objective of education is learning, not teaching
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Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…. I choose to call such…
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Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.
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A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that…
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It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.
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Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we…
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Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that…
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Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and…
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Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not…
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Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who…
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So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.
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Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.
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