“[Committees are] a tool of the democratic, knowledge-pooling, and desire-harmonizing process which cannot be otherwise forwarded. And when committees fail, as they sometimes do, it is because the limits to their role are not clearly understood or because they have not benefited by proper leadership from the chairman.”
Ordway Tead (1935) Creative Management: The Relation of Aims to Administration. p. 39.
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The Three Warning Circles (1972).
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“What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.”
The New York Herald Tribune, 15 June 1960.