Anthony Stafford Beer: Manager

Anthony Stafford Beer was British theorist, consultant, and professor. Explore interesting quotes on manager.
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“Clearly, if it is possible to have a self-regulating system that implicitly arranges its own stability, then this is of the keenest management interest.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 6, The Viable Governor, p. 154.

“If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Decision and control: the meaning of operational research and management cybernetics, 1966, p. 239 cited in: A. Ghosal (1978) Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research. p. 2 and many other sources.

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“We have, over the centuries, devised a management structure for running things, whether firms or whole countries. This structure depends absolutely on the limitations of the human hand, eye, and brain. The discoveries of management cybernetics, coupled with the techniques of operational research and with the new technology of automation, make possible a new way of running things which is not so limited. Yet we insist on retaining the original structures and automating them. In so doing, we enshrine in steel, glass, and semiconductors those very limitations of hand, eye, and brain that the computer was invented precisely to transcend.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 7, Automation and Such, p. 177.

Way , Dependency , Country

“Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 5, It Works, p. 117.

People , Problem

“A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 2, Chance, Risk and Malice, p. 58

“Hence we may recognize the subject of management cybernetics — which is seen as a rich provider of models for doing OR.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Decision and control: the meaning of operational research and management cybernetics, 1966, p. 239.

“The problem with managing either a business or a prison by periodic rather than continuous inspection is that the "variables" are likely to be seriously out of control before the discrepancy is noted.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 6, The Viable Governor, p. 146.

Business , Problem

“Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 1, Processes and Policies, p. 10.

Decision

“The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 1, Processes and Policies, p. 27.

“Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 3, Quantified Insight, p. 88.

Cars

“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.”

Anthony Stafford Beer

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 3, Quantified Insight, p. 61.

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