Augustine's Laws
Drawing heavily upon the author's experiences in managing aerospace projects as well as his years in government, this tongue-in-cheek, witty text addresses unmistakably real management issues that are deserving of attention.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Augustine's Laws
Index
A
Acquisitions. See Takeovers
Acronyms, 54-62
Adams, Abigail, 333
Addabbo, Joseph, 272
Administrative structure, 165-74
Advanced Helicopter Improvement Program, 240
Advertising. 23-29
Advertising age, 29
Aerospace Daily, 154, 239, 272
Aeschylus (Greek dramatist), 349
Aesop (Greek fabulist), 258
AFSATCOM. See Air Force Satellite Communications System
Airborne electronics systems, 118
Aircraft, 265, 294, 302
and paperwork, 237-43
See also Commercial aircraft; Military aircraft
Air Force (U.S.), 13-14, 55-56, 171-72, 178, 229
Air Force Satellite Communications System (AFSATCOM), 270
Ajello, Carl, 226
Alexander, Czar of Russia, 166
Ali, Muhammad, 186
Allen, Dr. John, 290
All Out of Step (Lambert), 26
American Bar Association, 64
American Football Conference, 144
Andretti, Mario, 99-100
Apollo projects, 50
Appalachian Development Highway, 252
Apple Macintosh Office Line, 29
Arabs, 98
Archer, George, 35
Argonne National Laboratory, 171
Armed Forces Journal, 195, 322, 325
Armed Services Procurement Regulations, 356
Armstrong, Louis (Satchmo), 111
Armstrong, Neil, 345
Army (U.S.), 62, 169-70, 172, 178, 231, 249, 302
maintenance manual, 294
Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, 346
Army Signal Corps, 240
Atkinson, Rick, 62
Atlantic Fleet (U.S.), 325
AT&T, 71, 83, 130
Auditing, 312-17
Augustine, Ren , 181
Augustine Dozier Law of Distributive
Rewards, 83
Augustine McKinley Law of Complicational Simplicity, 119, 285
Augustine Morrison Law of Undirectional Flight, 296-97
Augustine's Laws
Comprehensive Law of Incomprehensibility, 60
First Law of Counterproductivity, 78
First Law of Impending Doom, or Final Law of Economic Disarmament, 107, 112, 119, 123, 303
Law of Amplification of Agony, 301
Law of Analytical Alchemy, 211-12
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