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This has been the cause of a great deal of wasted time and effort, and industry, which needs young men who are healthy, tractable, unpretentious and, I would even say, full of illusions, often receives engineers who are tired out, weak in body, and less ready than one could wish to take modest jobs and work so hard that everything seems easy to them.

— Henri Fayol

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To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, co-ordinate and to control.

The manner in which the subordinates do their work has incontestably a great effect upon the ultimate result, but the operation of management has much greater effect.

There is no one doctrine of administration for business and another for affairs of state; administrative doctrine is universal. Principles and general rules which hold good for business hold good for the state too, and the reverse applies.

Henri Fayol (1917)

[Planning] means both to assess the future and make provision for it.

p. 43 cited in: George A. Steiner (1997)

One could define the administrative department by saying that it includes everything that is not part of the other departments, but one can define it in a more positive manner by saying that it is specifically responsible for

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