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You can manage what you do not understand, but you cannot lead it.

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If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.

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The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

Myron Tribus

Myron Tribus

Myron Tribus

Born: October 30, 1921

Died: August 31, 2016 (aged 94)

Bio: Myron T. Tribus was an American organizational theorist, who was the director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT from 1974 to 1986. He was known as leading supporter and interpreter of W.

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