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According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

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Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

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A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

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There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

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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 d…

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

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It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

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

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Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you …

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The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

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