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Biography

Russell Ackoff is a systems thinker. Chair of the Institute for Interactive Management and Professor Emeritus of the Wharton School.


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Concept of 'mess'

The term 'mess' relates to all human problems being inextricably connected to every other human problem. A 'mess' refers to a system of interacting problems.

(Based on 'The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success.', Ackoff, R. Oxford Univ Press, 1994, pages 210-212) 



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