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Management Quotes by Douglas McGregor
- The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
- Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement…
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- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
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- Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. — James Agate