Carolina QuotesThe burning cry in all organizations is for “good leadership,” but we have learned that beyond a threshold level of adequacy it is extremely difficult to know what good leadership is.
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 13
- work
- "The short and glorious history of organizational theory", 1973
- year
- 1973
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- p. 13
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