Download or read book Little Book of F-Laws written by Russell L. Ackoff and published by Triarchy Press Limited. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13 f-LAWS featured in this little red book are an introduction to Ackoff's thinking about management. Russell Ackoff, who died in 2009, was one of the world's leading business thinkers and one of the founding fathers of Systems Thinking. His Management f-Laws (a term coined by Ackoff) expose the 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 successful strategies for organizational change and development.