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Heller's Law

Laws

The first myth of management is that it exists.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker jokes that the opening false belief about management is the belief that it exists at all. It reads as a wry suspicion that the coordinating authority people imagine behind an organisation may be more assumption than reality, with work somehow getting done regardless.

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