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.