Russell L. Ackoff Quotes:
Life: February 12, 1919 - October 29, 2009
Birthday: February 12
Death: October 29
In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.
topic: Thinking, Understanding, Doe, Systems Thinking
