{"product_id":"decision-and-control-by-stafford-beer-9780471948384","title":"Decision and Control","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting, it is Stafford Beer—everyone in management should be grateful to him for using clear and, at times, elegant English and even elegant diagrams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAwarded the 1966 Lanchester Prize by the Operations Research Society of America for the best work published in 1966 in the field of management science, this book has been regarded as a Classic ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the literature of management, there is nothing to be compared with it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOperational Research Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis superb book is one of the very best I have ever read on management science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eManagement Science\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant book which rose far above the ruck of jargon-ridden ephemera. This is a study profound, wide-ranging, witty, graceful, and self-critical of the working of managerial systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheer scale and scope of Beer's book would rate it management text of the year in any list.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Statist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDecision and Control\u003c\/em\u003e is a major work, both elegant and erudite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeer’s imagination and enthusiasm stimulate those with whom he works to seek and cause improvements?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Director\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854440485100,"sku":"9780471948384","price":123.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e40cb5e9feda382be170f52fd31044dc.jpg?v=1759270127","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/decision-and-control-by-stafford-beer-9780471948384","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}