You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
Computer programming pioneer
Advice to the young on the distinction between management and leadership, with a witty jab at bureaucracy.
1987 (OCLC Newsletter, March/April)
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