Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.

You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.

Survival is optional. No one has to change.