Harold Leavitt quotes

“We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.”
-- Harold Leavitt

Source : Harold J. Leavitt (2005). “Top Down: Why Hierarchies are Here to Stay and how to Manage Them More Effectively”, p.35, Harvard Business Press

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“There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.”

Source : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

“It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.”

“A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 58), 1968.

“If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control”

Source : "Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research" by A. Ghosal, (p. 2), 1978.

“And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

“And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.”

“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”

“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”

“reading is at the beginning of the social contract”