Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
“There is no such thing as a good or bad organizational structure; there are only appropriate or inappropriate ones.”
Source: Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling (1979), p. 93 (2e ed. 1984) cited in: Susan Freese (1989) Child sexual abuse: impact and aftershocks. p. 130 - Pagina 190
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