Other Works by the Authors

Russell L. Ackoff - Solo Works

  • Memories 2010
  • Differences that make a difference 2010
  • Re-Creating the Corporation, 1999
  • Ackoff's Best, 1999
  • The Democratic Corporation, 1994
  • The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables, 1987
  • Creating the Corporate Future, 1981

Russell L. Ackoff - Co-Authored

  • Ackoff's F/laws: The Cake, with Herbert J. Addison, 2011
  • Systems Thinking for Curious Managers, with Andrew Carey 2010
  • A Little Book of f-Laws: 13 Common Sins of Management, with Addison, Herbert J and Bibb, Sally, 2006
  • Idealized Design, with Herbert J. Addison and Jason Magidson, 2006
  • Redesigning Society, with Sheldon Rovin, 2003
  • A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers, with W. Edwards Deming, 2000
    (This is a video from "The Deming Library Series", produced by Clare Crawford Mason: 1993)
  • Revitalizing Western Economics, with P. Broholm and R. Snow, 1984

Suggested Further Reading

  • Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not. Chris Argyris, 2000
  • The Yogi Book "I Didn't Really Say Everything I Said". Yogi Berra, 1999
  • Out of the Crisis. W. Edwards Deming, 1986
  • The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management. Peter Drucker, 2001
  • Growing Wings on the Way: Systems Thinking for Messy Situations. Rosalind Armson, 2011.
  • Management Challenges for the 21st Century. Peter Drucker, 1999
  • The Other 90%. Robert Cooper, 2002
  • The Living Company. Arie de Geus, 2002.
  • Blink. Malcolm Gladwell, 2005
  • The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell, 2000
  • The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism. Charles Handy, 1997
  • Understanding Organizations. Charles Handy, 1979
  • Adventures in Complexity: For organisations near the edge of chaos. Lesley Kuhn, 2009
  • Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. Joseph Jaworski, 1996
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. Daniel Pink, 2006
  • The Republic. Plato [see especially The Allegory of the Cave, Book 7] (Penguin Classics), 2003
  • The Three Ways of Getting Things Done. Gerard Fairtlough, 2007.
  • Changing Conversations in Organisations. Patricia Shaw, 2002