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The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
Chester Barnard
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Chester Barnard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 7
Died: 1961
Died: June 7
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Economist
Malden
Massachusetts
Chester Irving Barnard
Chester I. Barnard
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