Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Systems thinking - Russell L Ackoff

Starting an exploration (HuffPo).

"Problems dissolved, never to return? What are you talking about? If such a thing were true, how come I haven't heard of it before? If Russell Ackoff - and no disrespect intended... may he rest in peace - helped develop such a miraculous way of solving problems, how come he isn't as famous as Einstein? In fact, how can you compare someone who's unknown to someone as famous as Einstein?"
Posted by Arun at 7:06 PM

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Steven Brant · 799 weeks ago

Since you have quoted from my essay on The Huffington Post, perhaps you - Arun - would explain why you took the question I asked in my essay (as a "literary device" so I could then thoroughly answer the question I thought would be on certain people's minds) and posted only that question here on your blog?

By posting this question and leaving out the context in which it was written, all you're going to do is misdirect people who will see "Russell Ackoff" and then this quote. Was that your intent? (To be provocative?) Or do you expect all your readers to click on the link and read my entire essay... finding out the truth for themselves?

I am unfamiliar with your blog, so I have no idea what its purpose is.

Thanks for responding with an explanation.
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Arun · 799 weeks ago

I thought the purpose was obvious - to intrigue my readers enough to go and read your essay. I had just heard of Ackoff in a similar intriguing way that morning and just gotten the one book in the public library authored by him.

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