Source: Organization design: An information processing view, 1977, p. 21
“The greater the task uncertainty, the greater the amount of information that must be processed among decision makers during task execution in order to achieve a given level of performance.”
Source: Designing complex organizations, 1973, p. 4
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“A greater history opens before my eyes,
A greater task awaits me.”
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Lines 44–45 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
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