Anthony Stafford Beer on Science
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Anthony Stafford Beer, catalogued under Science, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Anthony Stafford Beer, entry #106584: "The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances."
Attributed to Anthony Stafford Beer, entry #191165: "If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control"
4 Quotes by Anthony Stafford Beer on Science
"The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances."
"If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control"
"According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system , there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled."
"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."