"other people set one's objectives, provides one's resources and furnish one's information. One rarely controls the circumstances of his work, or even its goals

"other people set one's objectives, provides one's resources and furnish one's information. One rarely controls the circumstances of his work, or even its goals. In management terms, one's authority is not sufficient for his responsibility. It all seems that on all fields, however, the jobs where things get done never have formal authority commensurate with the responsibility. In practice, actual (as opposed to formal) authority is acquired from the very momentum of accomplishment"