“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.

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