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Command-and-control management is categorised by systems thinkers as the dominant method of management in the Western world. Key influences are said to include
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Key critics of the command-and-control management ethos and techniques include members of the systems-thinking community and associated thinkers, including
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Organisations credited with having moved away from the command-and-control paradigm to a systems-thinking philosophy include
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practitioner John Little. In the 21st century John Seddon in particular has been deeply critical of successive
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It is characterised by some systems thinkers according to the following attributes:
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Command and Control (government)

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Alfred P. Sloan
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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W. Edwards Deming
John Seddon
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Russell L. Ackoff
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