Burden Quote by Shoshana Zuboff

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would…

— Jean Giraudoux

“The more details we can see, the less we have a sense of control. This is why layers of management in an organization tend…

— Mark Burgess

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

— Peter Rachleff

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.

— W. Edwards Deming

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover…

— John Ralston Saul

The working class must control the factories and the country

— Alan Woods

“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”

— Stan Slap

Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

— Lucy Parsons

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the…

— Peter Drucker

“In our studies of managers, we have found that the difference between those who take the initiative and those who do not becomes particularly…

— Harvard Business Review

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do…

— John Ralston Saul