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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Sect. I | Russell Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: the Story of a Model Relationship | 1 |
| 1 | Russell L. Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: I. The Influence of the Man on the Organization | 3 |
| 2 | Russell L. Ackoff and Anheuser-Busch: II. The Influence of the Organization on the Man | 9 |
| Sect. II | Pragmatism and Progress: Foundations | 19 |
| 3 | Analysis of Concepts | 21 |
| 4 | The Apostle of Progress | 31 |
| 5 | A Present of the Future | 49 |
| 6 | OR, MS, Systems Science, and Russell Ackoff: The Development of Two Paradigms | 53 |
| Appendix: Principal Publications of Russell L. Ackoff | 70 | |
| Sect. III | Systems Thinkers and Systems Applications | 81 |
| 7 | Planning Concepts, Planning Contexts | 84 |
| 8 | OR in Organizations | 98 |
| 9 | Andras Angyal and Systems Thinking | 111 |
| 10 | A Theory of Management | 133 |
| 11 | Educating for Reflection-in-Action | 142 |
| 12 | Performance Criteria as a Means of Social Integration | 162 |
| 13 | Some Comments on R. Ackoff's Concept of Interactive Planning | 179 |
| 14 | On Suicidal Rabbits: A Relativity of Systems | 194 |
| 15 | Personal Computers and the Shifting Control of Information in Corporations | 205 |
| 16 | Democratizing the Corporation: A Stakeholder Perspective | 213 |
| Sect. IV | Decision Making and Problem Solving: Purposeful Action Within Systems | 221 |
| 17 | Inequalities in Decision Theory | 223 |
| 18 | Priorities and Decisions in Hierarchic and Feedback | 237 |
| 19 | Measuring Process Creativity | 254 |
| 20 | Innovation and Optimization | 270 |
| 21 | Is It the Right Problem? | 282 |
| 22 | How Management by Consensus Is Bringing the Kingdom Down | 288 |
| 23 | Innovation in Juvenile Justice | 295 |
| Sect. V | Planning for National Development | 305 |
| 24 | The Elusive Interdisciplinarity of Development Planning | 307 |
| 25 | National Development Planning in Turbulent Times: New Approaches and Criteria for Institutional Design | 320 |
| 26 | Redesigning Western Foreign Policy | 354 |
| 27 | Power in the Design, Management and Evaluation of Organizations | 374 |
| 28 | Toward Interactive Planning for International Development Projects | 393 |
| 29 | Surutato: An Experience in Rural Participative Planning | 407 |
| List of Contributors | 417 | |
| Subject Index | 419 | |
| Name Index | 428 |
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