
“Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.”
Source: The Art of War, Chapter V · Forces
Harold Koontz in: Ronald G. Greenwood. Harold Koontz: A Reminiscence Presented at the meetings of the Academy of Management, Boston, August 14, 1984; as cited in Wren & Bedeian (2009;419-420)
“Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.”
Source: The Art of War, Chapter V · Forces
A manager develops people.
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 344
“Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.”
Source: Vanishing Acts
C. West Churchman, "Managerial acceptance of scientific recommendations" in California Management Review, Vol 7 (1964), p. 33; cited in Management Systems (1971), by Peter P. Schoderbek, p. 199
1960s - 1970s
In an interview to Siddharth Srivastava ( India's man for all seasons, Asia Times, September 29, 2004, 2006-05-29 http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FI29Df02.html,).
Source: The evolution of management thought, 1972, p. 11-12 (in 1972 edition)
Daniel A. Wren & Arthur G. Bedeian (1972: 11-12); as cited in: Le Texier, Thibault. "The first systematized uses of the term “management” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." Journal of Management History 19.2 (2013): 189-224.