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Managerial and Administrative Accidents


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With good intentions, managers and administrators may cause professional accidents by overloading, overcrowding, overriding or overtrusting. (1)They may overload themselves and their subordinates; (2) They may overcrowd their time table; (3)They may shortcut and override some necessary details which their subordinates or business partners have painstakingly made; (4) In communist or post-communist countries, they may over-trust "official" specialists without any system of quality control.
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Magoroh Maruyama
Stanford University, United States

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With good intentions, managers and administrators may cause professional accidents by overloading, overcrowding, overriding or overtrusting. (1)They may overload themselves and their subordinates; (2) They may overcrowd their time table; (3)They may shortcut and override some necessary details which their subordinates or business partners have painstakingly made; (4) In communist or post-communist countries, they may over-trust "official" specialists without any system of quality control.