"Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content."

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Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 10), 1968.

Anthony Stafford Beer

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“I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Spend some time alone every day.”
“Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.”
“I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.”
“Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.”
“If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment that are apparent are tied up in armaments, and if that country is a major exporter of arms, and its industrial fabric is dependent on them, then it would be in that country's interests to ensure that it always had a market. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is clearly in the interests of the world's leading arms exporters to make sure that there is always a war going on somewhere.”

Source : Marilyn Waring (1999). “Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and what Women are Worth”, p.139, University of Toronto Press
“One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others? weaknesses and fault. Kindness is extended to all--to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of stations as well as the high.”
“I am a United States citizen and I vote.”

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