Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes
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It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
Too close a view may interfere with one’s grasp of an overall problem or concept (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
The problem with managing either a business or a prison by periodic rather than continuous inspection is that the variables are likely to be seriously out of control before the discrepancy is noted (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation (Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes)