Compulsory Reading - Seddon, J. Systems Thinking in the Public Sector

Now move to people that are still alive. Read Chapter 4 (pp 47-65) - The present style of management from Seddon, John. 2008. Systems Thinking in the Public Sector : the failure of the reform regime... and a manifesto for a better way. Axminster : Triarchy Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-9550081-8-4.

Note well the (explicit) link to A. Smith and (not so obvious) link to Marx.