"[Committees are] a tool of the democratic, knowledge-pooling, and desire-harmonizing process which cannot be otherwise forwarded. And when committees fail, as they sometimes do, it is because the limits to their role are not clearly understood or because they have not benefited by proper leadership from the chairman."
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Ordway Tead (1935) Creative Management: The Relation of Aims to Administration. p. 39.
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Ordway Tead
Ordway Tead (10 September 1891 – November 1973) was an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor of industrial relations.
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