#ackoff

We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem then because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

NB: I published this article sometime in 2010, around the time I accepted an early severance package from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and retired. It was published using WordPress’s old classic editor and didn’t render well any longer, so I’ve upgraded it to their current block editor format. This should explain why the date associated with it is May 16, 2023. This article is a few years old, but…

II have tremendous respect for John List, PhD and many of his recommendations. However as I kept reading his new book, I noticed some fatal flaws.

This post was co-written with Quality Management and Deming expert, Allen Scott who also used information gained in personal communication with quality management and statistical expert Don Wheeler, PhD. I have tremendous respect for John List, PhD and many of his recommendations. I have read a lot of his work and heard him in presentations. I have also listened to him on Freakonomics. After…

We are part of the natural system and as a part, it is imperative we live in ways that improve the system. We now must move beyond continual improvement.

James Lovelock is over 100 years old now and wrote this book at 100. As I posted on Google Books and Good reads for a review, I was fascinated by the fresh ideas and the overwhelming logic and science provided in this book. Lovelocks book, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, provided a fresh look at everything. While I already had agreed with his Gaia Hypothesis, that earth is a…

Modelos de gerencia estratégica

Modelo de Russel Ackoff

En el modelo de Russel Ackoff se resalta la necesidad de comprender la naturaleza de los cambios enforma global y no parcial, para lo cual se debe desarrollar una mejor visión del mundo en concordancia con los nuevos métodos de la época. Ackoff aborda la necesidad de la planeación al expresar que cuando no se planea no se puede evitar que nos alcance la planeación de los…

If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk... Beyond "continuous improvement"

If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk...