Quotes by Stafford Beer

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Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.
 
The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances.
 
The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
 
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