In Business -- Doing It Wrong (Professor Russell Ackoff)

[C Shambu Prasad]

Dear students,

This mail was a result of some interesting discussion amongst faculty recently over mail on competing, compassion and copying at XIMB! Nevertheless this is a great opportunity to listen to one of the best management thinkers - Russell Ackoff on why is it necessary to thing integratively and synthetically and not just analytically.

It is long (nearly 30 mins) but surely worth it with some superb editing and good quality audio. Also an opportunity to reflect on your own learning as you are coming closer to the end of your own business management education.

Happy listening

Shambu 

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From: D. P. Dash <dpd...@ximb.ac.in>
Date: Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:05 AM
Subject: In Business -- Doing It Wrong (Professor Russell Ackoff)
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For those interested in the ideas of Professor Russell Ackoff, here is an excellent interview with Professor Ackoff, broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio 4 recently:

In Business -- Doing It Wrong (Interview with Professor Russell Ackoff)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pr72d/In_Business_Doing_It_Wrong/

Programme information:

Russell Ackoff was a great subversive -- a business school professor who thought that business schools were a block on management thinking and who delighted in pointing out the flaws in the way companies work. Before he died at the age of 90 in October 2009, this business rebel gave Peter Day some insights into his unconventional approach to getting things done.

Broadcast on: BBC Radio 4, 9:30pm Sunday 17th January 2010
Duration: 28 minutes
Available until: 12:00am Thursday 1st January 2099

DP
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Source of information: "SystemsThinkers" Yahoo!Group, 22-Jan-2009

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Dr. C Shambu Prasad
Associate Professor,
Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar
Ph: +91-674-3983740 (o) 876 (r) 2302580 (r) 2300995 (Fax)
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