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What is Russell L. Ackoff trying to say in the two statements below? 1.)"improving the performance of...

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What is Russell L. Ackoff trying to say in the two statementsbelow?

1.)"improving the performance of the parts of a system takenseparately will not necessarily improve the performance of thewhole.”

2.) “Systems thinking is holistic, it attempts to derive anunderstanding of the parts from the behavior and properties ofwholes rather than derive the behavior and properties of wholesfrom those of their parts.”

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1 In the easiest sense we can say that Russell Ackoff is trying to tell us that when we consider a system in isolation any change we make to it has a 5050 chance of having no effect on the entirety of the system With that being said when we try and    See Answer
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