Anthony Stafford Beer - Control Quotes

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

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The problem with managing either a business or a prison by periodic rather than continuous inspection is that the "variables" are likely to be seriously out of control before the discrepancy is noted.

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

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According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

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