“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal” IfsWarActionMovingGivenGoalCommonEffortEconomyShareMilitaryActivityResourcesProgramFlowTasksManagementComplexesProductionsStatementsFinanceDefinedQuantityTimingSchedulesInitialsUndertakingsExertionCoordination Author:George Dantzig
“I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformative leadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice.” MovingPurposeNaturalPracticeBalanceDisciplineInnovationDown AndManagementImpactConstantCriticalCustomersSpeedProductivityAuthenticityIntimacySignificanceSlow DownDiligenceAccuracySlowing Author:Kevin Cashman
“The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHumansMovingDifferencesClassMediaPolicyAdventureInvolvedCivilizationApproachSmartSolutionsManagementDon't BelieveEstablishmentPanicAgricultureApocalypseStarvationSmart PeopleHuman CivilizationClass Differences Author:Terence McKenna
“Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.” PeopleMovingBusinessComfortableManagementLaddersHiringBetter Than YouReplacementsDummy Book:The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One Source: The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One