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No matter how hard you work, there are times that things happen that are out of our control. Keep your eyes on your ideas as well as reality. That’s what being prepared really means.

…it helps to be in control of those things we can control.

As long as measurements are abused as a tool of control, measuring will remain the weakest area in the manager’s performance.

Management’s concern and management’s responsibility are everything that affects the performance of the institution and its results – whether inside or outside, whether under the institution’s control or totally beyond it.

…knowledge workers are not programmed by the machine… They largely are in control of their own tasks and must be in control of their own tasks.

[Knowledge workers], and only they, own and control the most expensive of the means of production – their education – and their most important tool – their knowledge.

The greatest advantage of management by objectives is perhaps that it makes it possible for managers to control their own performance. Self-control means stronger motivation: a desire to do the best rather than do just enough to get by.

…if new information technology is abused to impose control on managers from above, it will inflict incalculable harm by demoralizing management and by seriously lowering the effectiveness of managers.

Management by objectives and self-control assumes that people want to be responsible, want to contribute, want to achieve… we know that people tend to act as they are expected to act.

…effective leaders are painfully aware that they are not in control of the universe.