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A Complex Decision Is Like A Great River, Drawing From Its Many Tributaries The Innumerable Premises Of Which It Is Constituted.

Because He Treats The World As Rather Empty And Ignores The Interrelatedness Of All Things (so Stupefying To Thought And Action), Administrative Man Can Make Decisions With Relatively Simple Rules Of Thumb That Do Not Make Impossible Demands Upon His Capacity For Thought.

Most Of What We Do To Get People Ready To Act In Situations Of Encounter Consists Of Drilling These Lists Into Them Sufficiently Deeply So That They Will Be Evoked Quickly At The Time Of The Decision.

Many Individuals And Organization Units Contribute To Every Large Decision, And The Very Problem Of Centralization And Decentralization Is A Problem Of Arranging The Complex System Into An Effective Scheme.

Engineers Are Not The Only Professional Designers. Everyone Designs Who Devises Courses Of Action Aimed At Changing Existing Situations Into Preferred Ones. The Intellectual Activity That Produces Material Artefacts Is No Different Fundamentally From The One That Prescribes Remedies For A Sick Patient Or The One That Devises A New Sales Plan For A Company Or A Social Welfare Policy For A State.