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Stewart Butterfield (b. 1973) Canadian tech entrepreneur and businessman
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/butterfield-stewart/33321/feed/ 0 33321 Ackoff, Russell -- “Management Misinformation Systems,” Management Sciences (Dec 1967) https://wist.info/ackoff-russell/28164/ https://wist.info/ackoff-russell/28164/#respond Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:51:46 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28164 I do not deny that most managers lack a good deal of information that they should have, but I do deny that this is the most important informational deficiency from which they suffer. It seems to me that they suffer more from an overabundance of irrelevant information.


Russell L. Ackoff (1919-2009) American organizational theorist, consultant, management scientist
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