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.

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

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

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.

The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

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.