There are so many people involved and it requires such a tremendous effort to put something into effect that a new idea is likely to be considered insignificant in comparison with the effort that it takes to put it across.
We know every dollar added to the cost means more than one dollar added to the consumer price. We know a higher consumer price means fewer consumer sales.
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Decentralization or not, an industrial corporation is not the mildest form of organization...! never minimized the administrative power of the chief executive.
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human