Decision and Control"Stafford 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." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA "If anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is