Reference: Russell Ackoff on Doing Right Things Righter

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Russell L. Ackoff
Russell L. Ackoff

Phi Beta Iota: Government is broken.  Ron Paul has that exactly right.  It is broken for two reasons: first because over time those spending the money have grown distant from those providing the money, the individual taxpayers, AND from reality.  The second reason it is broken is because knowledge itself has become fragmented, and “systems thinking” has fallen by the wayside.

Below are three quotes from a tremendous reference of lasting value to every citizen and policymaker.

ONE: Reformations and transformations are not the same thing.  Reformations are concerned with changing the means systems employ to pursue their objectives.  Transformations involve changes in the objectives they pursue.

cover ackoff paperTWO: The righter we do the wrong thing, the wronger we become. When we make a mistake doing the wrong thing and correct it, we become wronger. When we make a mistake doing the right thing and correct it, we become righter. Therefore, it is better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right. This is very significant because almost every problem confronting our society is a result of the fact that our public policy makers are doing the wrong things and are trying to do them righter.

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Stephen E. Arnold

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Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold is an independent consultant. He's the author of The Google Legacy: How Search Became the New Application Platform, the first three editions of the Enterprise Search Report, and Google Version 2.0: The Calculating Predator. His work has been distributed by Bear Stearns and Outsell Inc. This information is based on research for this forthcoming study, Beyond Search: What to Do When Your Search System Doesn't Work, Gilbane Group, 2008. His Web site is www.arnoldit.com.

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Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Marshall Auerback

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Martin Auerback
Martin Auerback

Marshall Auerback has 27 years of experience in the investment management business, serving as a global portfolio strategist for RAB Capital Plc, a UK-based fund management group with $2 billion under management, since 2003. He is also co-manager of the RAB Gold Fund. He serves as an economic consultant to PIMCO, the world’s largest bond fund management group, and as a fellow of the Economists for Peace and Security.  He is one of the Brainstrusters associated with New Deal 2.0 as sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

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America’s biggest economic problem? We’re all broke. Literally.

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Why Goldman still owes us

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Big Banks to American Public: “Screw You”

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Yochai Benkler

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Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School, he was Joseph M. Field ‘55 Professor of Law at Yale. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless communications. www.benkler.org.  Below is his Foreword to the book as re-mixed by Hassan Masum.

The Wealth of Networks:
Highlights Remixed

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Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Babette Bensoussan

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Babette Bensoussan
Babette Bensoussan

abette Bensoussan is Managing Director of The MindShifts Group, a company specialising in competitive intelligence, strategic planning and strategic marketing projects in the Australasia region. Babette is widely recognised and sought after for her international expertise in competitive analysis, and has provided mentoring and training to executives and organizations to assist with the delivery of the highest level of knowledge and implementation of competitive intelligence.

Recognised internationally in 2006 by being given the highest and most prestigious U.S. award in the field of Competitive Intelligence – the SCIP Meritorious Award, Babette is the first Australian and first female international recipient to be honoured with this award.

Babette has shared her knowledge of competitive business analysis by co-authoring two books, Strategic and Competitive Analysis and Business and Competitive Analysis Effective Application of New and Classic Methods have both been the top selling books in this field since being published in 2003 and 2007 respectively. Her third book Analysis without Paralysis: 10 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions was released in June 2008 and The Financial Times Guide to Analysis for Managers in the near future.

Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Mats Bjore

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Mats Bjore
Mats Bjore

Mats Bjore is unique in many ways.  He is one of just two Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) pioneers recognized with Royal Awards for his accomplishment in creating the Swedish Military Long-Range Reconnaissance OSINT network.  He has gone on to be a successful manager for knowledgement (McKinsey), and advisor to Factiva, and CEO and founder of two companies, INFOSHERE AB and SILOBREAKER AB, as well as a third company-software, Able-to-Act.

From 1992 onwards, he has been one of a dozen people nurturing OSINT, a hybrid discipline now established in over 90 countries around the world.

We credit him with coining the term “commercial intelligence” to provide for 360 degree intelligence that embraces “true cost” accounting as well as intangible valuations that “competitive intelligence” does not appreciate.

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Who’ Who in Public Intelligence: Vint Cerf

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PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Dr. Vint Cerf, Parent of the Internet

Dr. Vinton Cerf, one of several founding parents of the Internet, inspiration to the global Internet Society, and today a mentor to Google, which seeks to place all information at the disposal of the people of the world, is without question one of a handful of individual who have impacted on every person's life, whose life's work could be said to prove the point that information can deter conflict and create stabilizing indigenous wealth.