Careers equations for managers: Management "by the numbers" has been denigrated, yet the author, with tongue only partially in cheek, raises provocative possibilities

We engineers are inclined to try to reduce all problems to their essentials. This includes, wherever possible, putting our observations in the form of equations, inequalities, differential calculus, and sets. But will this technique work as we don our management hats? I'm inclined to think that, in some important cases, it will, and that, furthermore, it helps us to understand some normally hidden corollaries. So bear with me! You'll find no Fourier analysis, and you may question the rigorousness of my manipulations, but hang in there! We'll probe responsibility, authority, decision-making, and organization.