Quote #79

[Management is] an integrating discipline of human values and conduct, of social order and intellectual inquiry, [a discipline that] feeds off economics, psychology, mathematics, political theory, history, and philosophy. In short, management is a liberal art...

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  2. There is only one point on which the economists and I are in agreement: I am NOT an economist.
  3. At least once every five years every form should be put on trial for its life.
  4. Limiting access to opportunity to those with a diploma is a crass denial of all fundamental beliefs--beliefs, by the way, that have been am…
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