"Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept"

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Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 21), 1968.

Anthony Stafford Beer

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“As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.”
“The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.”
“It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.”
“The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.”
“Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.”
“The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.”
“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.”
“So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.”

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