ABSTRACT
Almost everyone who has ever had anything to do with management techniques agrees that the efficiency of almost every organisation can be improved by their use. The use of the high-sounding titles is coupled to another reason why managers go in awe of these techniques, and it also explains why such awesome names are chosen. The experts in these techniques like to give the impression that they are considerably above the average intelligence. Management techniques are designed to tackle a problem at its roots: it takes time to do this. Some techniques depend almost entirely upon higher mathematics, some are based on an extremely sophisticated line of thought and to explain them intelligibly without using words of more than one syllable is well-nigh impossible. Some techniques are extremely simple to learn and to use, and often these are the ones that are the most universally useful.
