Russell Ackoff on Creativity and the Limitations of Management f-Laws

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1. Russell Ackoff spoke about organizations which strive for less, from less cycle time to less inventory to less staff. Such action is very consistent with the management style of a Me Organization. Ackoff's proposal is that "getting less of what you don't want doesn't get you what you want." Instead, he proposed, "Improvement must be focussed on what you want, not on what you don't want." Given this context, answer the two questions below:

1) In contrast to Me Organizations focussing on what they don't want, how do We Organizations focus on what they do want?

2) What would you propose as the wants of We Organizations?

2. Over many years of observations and reflections, Russell Ackoff collected a long list of what he eventually referred to as f-Laws. Given what he shared in his 2007 lecture at Rocketdyne, what is your favorite f-Law and how does it remind you of a Me Organization?

3.Given the examples in Russell Ackoff's 2007 lecture, in what ways are his ideas about the responsibilities of management consistent with the management responsibilities of a We Organization?

4. As explained by Russell Ackoff, it is not uncommon for a given problem to be defined as a design problem or a manufacturing problem or a social problem or an economic problem. Given this context, answer the two questions below:

1) Which organization, Me or We, would define a given problem in this way, using one adjective to explain it?

2) What are the consequences of using one adjective to define a problem in the manner?

Me Organization: performance-oriented, competitive

We Organizations: cooperative, mutually respectful