Robert Townsend (author) Quote

'Top' management (the board of directors) is supposed to be a tree full of owls—hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.


Up the Organization (1970)


'Top' management (the board of directors) is supposed to be a tree full of owls—hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest....

'Top' management (the board of directors) is supposed to be a tree full of owls—hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest....

'Top' management (the board of directors) is supposed to be a tree full of owls—hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest....

'Top' management (the board of directors) is supposed to be a tree full of owls—hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest....