on Thu, 4 Nov 1999Fred Nickols wrote RE: Mgt Ed/Dev & Systems
>I think discussions of systems, including examples, is relevant to
>management education and development. Managers who don't understand
>systems (in all their many forms and types -- Kenneth Boulding comes to
>mind here) are, in my opinion, less well equipped than those who do.
In my experience practically all problems in an organization were directly
traceable to a lack of systems perspective. Those that were not traced to
pure ego power trips.
I'll extend Ackoff's "If the parts of a corporation do not interact, they
form an aggregation,
not a system." by adding: and if the parts interact without purpose they
are a conflicting collage and still not a system.
>
>Just for the heck of it I think I'll round up my systems library and see
>what poring over it brings to mind.
I'll be interested in your conclusions. It seems to me that once system is
understood there is no need for typing sysems.
>--
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