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Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

Anthony Stafford Beer
Clearly, if it is possible to have a self-regulating system that implicitly arranges its own stability, then this is of the keenest management interest.

Anthony Stafford Beer
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control

Anthony Stafford Beer
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.

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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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The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances.

Anthony Stafford Beer
We have, over the centuries, devised a management structure for running things, whether firms or whole countries. This structure depends absolutely on the limitations of the human hand, eye, and brain. The discoveries of management cybernetics, coupled with the techniques of operational research and with the new technology of automation, make possible a new way of running things which is not so limited. Yet we insist on retaining the original structures and automating them. In so doing, we enshrine in steel, glass, and semiconductors those very limitations of hand, eye, and brain that the computer was invented precisely to transcend.

Anthony Stafford Beer
A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

Anthony Stafford Beer
Hence we may recognize the subject of management cybernetics — which is seen as a rich provider of models for doing OR.

Anthony Stafford Beer