Stafford Beer

Quotes

• “General Systems Theory, as originally intended by Von Bertalanffy, is an ideal framework for the modeling of a business enterprise. Work, in its most civilized form should enrich, empower and emancipate. Thus we must continue to find ways to support work as a humanistic, not mechanistic endeavor. We must continue to seek out new models of business that support and enhance the individual as well as the collective whole. Given all this new technology, we need new institutions for handling it.”
• “. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.”
• “If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control”
• “Hence we may recognize the subject of management cybernetics — which is seen as a rich provider of models for doing OR.”
• “Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.”
• “Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept”

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