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Interestingly, one of the biggest problems with most people's personal management systems is that they blend a few actionable things with a large amount of data and material that has value but no action attached.
What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
Overworked managers are doing things they shouldn't be doing.
You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.
Our system is not fit for purpose. It's inadequate in terms of its scope, it's inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management systems and processes.
When dealing with a complex adaptive system, sticking to the plan is a recipe for failure.
Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.
I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.
Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.
The master understands that the universe is forever out of control
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense
impossible planning, strange priorities and a continual lack of information.
Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software
Management has no divine rights.
The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.
Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
The irresistible force meets the immovable object.
Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.
The only thing that can break the unbreakable is the unthinkable.
A system can not understand itself.
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager.
But no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable.
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly.
Can't be touched, Can't be stopped, Can't be moved, Can't be rocked, Can't be shook.
Failure is a stripping away of the inessential.
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
There are some mechanisms that are so - so broken that they cannot be repaired.
The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.
All time is unreedemable.
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word ... POSSIBLE."
While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.
There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
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I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.
Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.
The impossible is negotiable.
What is possible is malleable.
The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best.
Success can not be administrated.
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.
Responsibility cannot be shared.
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.
Management is prediction.
Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.
A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.
If your system is difficult or annoying to administer, it will be neglected, deprecated, and probably implemented incorrectly. It might even get sabotaged.
The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary
If you can't solve a problem, manage it.
Such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension
When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.
Our desires are insatiable. We seek from the limited the unlimited. We must fail. Our insatiability is a third incurable defect in human life.
The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.
What is unreasonable is irrefutable.
The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.
Management has to be where the action is.
One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of people - can keep in their heads. This is why software is generally beneath contempt.
I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.
The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!
this word needs to be reworded ==========
In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.
From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the - largely unconscious - embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management.
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.
When a problem is unsolvable, it ceases to be a problem.
Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.
The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up
but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.
Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.
What we have done is unacceptable.
You cannot keep determined people for success.
From this irritating reality comes The First Law of Corporate Survival for ambitious CEOs who pile on leverage and run large and unfathomable derivatives books: Modest incompetence simply won't do; it's mindboggling screw-ups that are required.
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.
If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.
The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.
dependable as only incredibly dull things can be,
Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable
My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.
Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.
When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is "too busy" to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.
A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
You can't be fixed. You can't be saved.
What we do not understand, we cannot control.
What you cannot control, you must accept.