“The principles of good management are simple, even trivial. They are not widely practices for the same reason that Christianity is not widely practiced. It is not enough to know what the principles are; you must acquire deeply ingrained habits of carrying them out, in the face of all sorts of strong urges to stray onto more comfortable and pleasant paths, to respond without inhibition to provocations, and just to goof off. “

From the remarkable autobiography of the Nobel Prize winning social scientist and father of artificial intelligence, Herbert Simon. Simon literally wrote the book on Administrative Behavior.