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

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

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.

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

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

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.

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