Chester Barnard book The Functions of the Executive
Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 19 (in 1968 edition)
“Crudely effective, but wildly inefficient.”
— Dan Simmons, book The Rise of Endymion
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 17 (p. 334)
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