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To wait until a business or an industry is in trouble is playing Russian roulette. It is irresponsible management.
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102 |
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Management needs to anticipate changes in market structure that result from changes in the economy, from changes in fashion or taste, from moves by competition.
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103 |
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Except for the rare monopoly situation, the only thing that differentiates one business from another in any give field is the quality of its management on all levels.
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110 |
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…a large proportion of business ideas are effective. Innovating managers have, therefore, had a good deal more impact as a group than the historians realize.
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117 |
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Practically every basic management decision is a long-range decision… every major management decision takes years before it is really effective.
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122 |
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Managing knowledge work and the knowledge worker will require exceptional imagination, exceptional courage, and leadership of a high order.
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187 |
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Knowledge-worker productivity is the biggest of the management challenges of the twenty-first century.
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207 |
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Managers are the most expensive resource in most organizations – and the one that depreciates the fastest and needs the most constant replenishment.
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235 |
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A manager’s job exists because the task facing the enterprise requires it – and for no other reason.
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239 |
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The [manager’s] job has to have its own authority and its own responsibility. For managers must manage.
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239 |
