"Management is not a matter of pressing a button, pulling a lever, issuing orders, scanning profit and loss statements, promulgating rules and regulations. Rather, management is the power to determine what shall happen to the personalities and to the happiness of entire peoples, the power to shape the destiny of a nation and of all the nations which make up the world. Executive work, therefore, is statesmanship and the techniques which the executive employs are only incidental to the forces which he sets in motion and helps to direct. It is no exaggeration, therefore, to say that the management of the nation's large institutions, both in business and in government, determines the fate of millions of individual lives as well as the lives of generations unborn."
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p. 3-4, as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 419
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Marshall E. Dimock
Marshall Edward Dimock (1903 - Nov. 14, 1991) was an American political scientist, Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Government at , known for his work in the field of public administration.
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