The Devil Is In The Details, And

What It Takes To Do A Job Will Not Be Learned From Management Courses. It Is Principally A Matter Of Experience, The Proper Attitude, And Common Sense — None Of Which Can Be Taught In A Classroom... Human Experience Shows That People, Not Organizations Or Management Systems, Get Things Done.

It Troubles Me That We Are So Easily Pressured By Purveyors Of Technology Into Permitting So-called "progress" To Alter Our Lives Without Attempting To Control It-as If Technology Were An Irrepressible Force Of Nature To Which We Must Meekly Submit.

Any One Detail, Followed Through To Its Source, Will Usually Reveal The General State Of Readiness Of The Whole Organization.

A System Under Which It Takes Three Men To Check What One Is Doing Is Not Control; It Is Systematic Strangulation.

The Devil Is In The Details, And Everything We Do In The Military Is A Detail.