Effective research is not disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary it is transdisciplinary.
#SYSTEM LENS RUSSELL ACKOFF CLIFFNOTES SERIES#
Denial of this principle of performance improvement led me to a series of organizational designs intended to facilitate the management of interactions: the circular organization, the internal market economy, and the multidimensional organization. This explains why benchmarking has almost always failed. In fact, it can destroy an organization, as is apparent in an example I have used ad nauseum: Installing a Rolls Royce engine in a Hyundai can make it inoperable. Improving the performance of the parts of a system taken separately will necessarily improve the performance of the whole.Here is a very small sample of the obvious things I have found to be wrong: I have been greatly influenced by Ambrose Bierce’s definition of self-evident: “Evident to one’s self and to nobody else.” The obvious, I discovered, is not what needs no proof, but what people do not want to prove. In most cases, I have found the obvious to be wrong. I have very much enjoyed denying the obvious and exploring the consequences of doing so. So I’m going to recall the principal sources of the fun that I have experienced. For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun. Now where do these self-indulgent reflections leave me? Not surprisingly, where I want to be: discussing the most important aspect of life, having fun. I want to encourage, not discourage, your making your own. Furthermore, you cannot learn from my mistakes, only from your own. I learned from it precisely because it wasn’t what I expected, which also explains why I don’t remember it. I also have no interest in reconstructing the past as I would like it to have been. I am a founding member of the Presentology Society. I have no interest in forecasting the future, only in creating it by acting appropriately in the present. Unfortunately, as you know, I have no interest in forecasting the future, only in creating it by acting appropriately in the present. As Kenneth Boulding once said, If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen. The fact is that whatever we can see clearly about the future we will take steps to prevent from happening. Pickers may also falsely assume that the clarity with which one can foresee the future increases with age.
Whatever I may have once possessed, I have dissipated in my writings. Unfortunately, my bag of wisbits is empty. The pickee is then expected to share with the pickers the bits of wisdom he or she may have accumulated.
This request is based on the false assumption that wisdom increases with age.
Picking usually consists of the pickers asking the pickee to reflect back on the wisdom he has gained over his lifetime. When one reaches 80, one is considered to be ripe and ready for picking.
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