Myron Tribus

1921–2016 · American engineer and organizational theorist

Topics: engineering leadership, complexity

• If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.

  — Myron Tribus

• You can manage what you do not understand, but you cannot lead it.

  — Myron Tribus