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Management

Oversight, supervision, direction, planning

QUOTES

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
 C Northcote Parkinson
 Parkinson's Law, 1958

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.
 George S Patton
 War As I Knew It, 1947

First things first, second things never.
 Shirley Conran
 Superwoman, 1975

A place for everything and everything in its place.
 Mrs Beeton
 Book of Household Management, 1861

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
 Laurence J Peter
 The Peter Principle, 1969

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensible.
 Dwight Eisenhower
 1955

Management that wants to change an institution must first show it loves that institution.
 John Tusa
 1994

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