 Systems theorist Russell L. Ackoff, his co-author Herbert J. Addison and Sally Bibb invented the term in 2006 to describe their series of over 100 distilled observations of bad leadership and the misplaced wisdom that often surrounds management in organizations.Ackoff and Addison's "f"-Laws might seem counter-intuitive.They are designed to challenge organizations' unquestioning adherence to established management habits or beliefs.