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Myron Tribus Quotes

born 1921 United States

Myron T. Tribus (born October 30, 1921) is an American organizational theorist, who was the director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT from 1974 to 1986.

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You can manage what you do not understand, but you cannot lead it.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.

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