"The worst kind of management seeks a single……" — James Fallows
"The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal."
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34 Quotes by James Fallows
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think…
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Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.
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According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining…
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It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially…
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the…
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed…
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Make the important interesting.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko…
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Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
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