
The best thing you can do on a project is get on top of an
absolutely out-of-control team that’s headed in the right
direction. . . .you can’t steer it, you can’t make it go faster or
slower, but it is making tremendous progress.
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Compliance mechanisms, no matter how cleverly
designed, inhibit exploration of paths that managers cannot
anticipate. True instruments of industrial making, they pre-
sume that whatever needs to be done can be anticipated, that
you can and do know where you are going before you start out
on every journey. David Bradley, a People’s Light director,
extends these ideas to explain his view of the differences
between directing and ...