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

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

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

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

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

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 do.

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.