Yet, faced with the larger decisions which the trend of
and world affairs have placed before it, without these things business will everywhere be reduced to programmatic futil- ity, and its centralized direction may well find itself without the wit at the critical moment to make even those half-hearted com- promises urged upon it--as a condition to survival on any workable version of the time-honored principles of "muddling through" by its own more vocal bellwether prophets such as Rathenau and Filene.
Brady - Business as a System of Power
