James G. March Quotes

• If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.

  James G. March

  Giving, Advice, Answers

  James G. March (2008). “Explorations in Organizations”, p.13, Stanford University Press

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• No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

  James G. March

  Jobs, Believe, Organization

  James G. March (2008). “Explorations in Organizations”, p.13, Stanford University Press

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• They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.

  James G. March

  People, Made, Preference

  "How Decisions Happen in Organizations". Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 6, 1991.

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• I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

  James G. March

  Relevant

  "Ideas as Art". Interview with Diane Coutu, hbr.org. October 2006.

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