The Alpha and Omega Awards:
Announcing the First Systems Thinking Awards

These will presented weekly from 2-3 PM San Diego time on the World Talk Radio Show called SteveHainesLive: Revolutionalizing How the World Thinks.

After each Weekly Show, these Awards are also listed FREE as (1) Archived each week on World Talk Radio as well as (2) also placed on iTunes and their iPod Podcast for your listening pleasure as well.

1. The Analytical Thinking Run Amuck Award - For Systems Stinkers but dedicated to Ludwig von Bertalanffy, the Founder of Systems Thinking instead of the Defenders of Decline (The Alpha of the Past)

Ludwig von Bertalanffy would be baffled by this Defenders of Decline. He is the Founder of Systems Thinking, born in Vienna, Austria (1902-1972) and founded his Society for Society for General Systems Research formed in 1954 with 3 Nobel Prize Winners. He is the most influential unknown TITAN AND THOUGHT LEADER of the 20th Century.

He and his SGSR influenced over 30 fields of science to change their thinking to a more holistic view of the world and continue to this day. It includes Edward Deming (TQM), Abraham Maslow (Hierarchy of Needs), Peter Drucker (also born in Vienna, Austria and the acknowledged greatest management consultant of the 20th century), our Global Village and Economy, Russell Ackoff (see below), etc.

2. The Systems Thinkers Architects of the future Award - dedicated to Russell Ackoff and the Architects of the Future (The Omega of the Future)

Russell Ackoff and his Ackoff Center at the University of Pennsylvania just died in 2009 at age 90 and we lost the most respected Systems Thinking Guru and last Renaissance Man in this field. He was unique and will never be replaced. Every book or writings you can find should be devoured by each of you on the practicality and simplicity of Systems Thinking (including ?How to Beat the System-a recent book)

• Award #2A: Collective Architects
• Award #2B: Individual Architects

Russ Ackoff once said:
"All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter,"
"The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter!

If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better."