I do not deny that most managers lack a good deal of inform… - Russell L. Ackoff

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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

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Russell L. Ackoff (12 February 1919 – 29 October 2009) was an American organizational theorist, professor and pioneer in the field of operations research, systems thinking and management science.

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Alternative Names: Russel Ackoff • Russell Lincoln Ackoff • Rassel Akoff

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