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

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

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.

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

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

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 want to go.