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A business management has failed if it fails to produce economic results. It has failed if it does not supply goods and services desired by the consumer at a price the consumer is willing to pay.
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027 |
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Management is not just a creature of the economy; it is a creator as well. And only the ethe extent to which it masters the economic circumstances, and alters them by consciously directed action, does it really manage.
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027 |
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To manage a business means, therefore, to manage by objectives.
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027 |
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…if work and worker are grossly mismanaged, there will be no economic performance, no matter how good the chief executive may be in managing the business.
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030 |
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Managers also have to be entrepreneurs. The have to redirect resources from areas of low or diminishing results to areas of high or increasing results… They have to create tomorrow.
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031 |
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The perpetuation of a business is a central entrepreneurial task – and ability to do so may well be the most definitive test of a management.
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032 |
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The management of knowledge workers should be based on the assumption that the corporation needs them more than they need the corporation. They know they can leave. They have both mobility and self-confidence.
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056 |
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…top management in the next society’s corporation will [need to] balance the three dimensions of the corporation: as an economic organization, as a human organization, and as increasingly important social organization.
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058 |
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To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent. The most effective way to manage chance successfully is to create it.
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061 |
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…succession has always been the ultimate test of any top management of any institution.
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070 |
