Russell L. Ackoff Quotes - Page 2

• Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Talking, People, Ordinary

  Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley

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• It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Satisfaction, Recreation, Contrast

  Russell L. Ackoff (1994). “The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Past, Needs, Unattainable

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• Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Data, Suffering, Trying

  "Management Misinformation Systems". Management Sciences Vol. 14, No. 4, (p. 148), December 1967.

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