I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.
I believe in the difference that a man or woman can make at the top of an organisation. Once you have a really good guy in place at the top, the next most important thing is continuity of management as opposed to a revolving door.
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Management must manage!
The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
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