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No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

James G. March

If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.

James G. March

… we sometimes find that such heresies have been the foundation for bold and necessary change, but heresy is usually just crazy. Most daring new ideas are foolish or dangerous and appropriately rejected or ignored. So while it may be true that great geniuses are usually heretics, heretics are rarely great geniuses.

James G. March

They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.

James G. March

James G. March

James G. March

Born: January 15, 1928

Died: September 27, 2018 (aged 90)

Bio: James Gardner March was Jack Steele Parker professor emeritus at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education, best known for his research on organizations, his A behavioral theory of the firm and organizational decision making.

Known for:

A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (1963)
Rediscovering Institutions (1989)
Organizations (1958)
Decisions and Organizations (1988)

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