Reflections on Russell Ackoff's Legacy in the Centenary Year of His Birth

Rita Gunther McGrath

Production and Operations Management, 2019, vol. 28, issue 9, 2162-2164

Abstract: Russell Ackoff's iconoclastic journey through the scholarly world illustrates just how far ahead of his time he was, and how much we all still owe him. His influence was so fundamental that today we accept his once‐controversial ideas as taken for granted realities. Every time you try to grasp the complexities of an interdependent system, try to understand the root causes of problems that appear on the surface or try to “connect the dots,” you are drawing on the groundwork laid by Russ. It would be difficult to overstate his impact.

Date: 2019
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