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

Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

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

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.

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