John Gall (author)

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John Gall (September 18, 1925 – December 15, 2014) was an American author, scholar, and pediatrician.^[1][2] Gall is known for his 1975 book General systemantics: an essay on how systems work, and especially how they fail..., a critique of systems theory. One of the statements from this book has become known as Gall's law.^[2]