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While you don’t want to punish people for taking good risks, not all risks are good. While there is no reward without risk, there is certainly risk with little or no chance of corresponding reward.
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250 |
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Management is tasks. Management is discipline. But management is also people.
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004 |
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…people within an organization who have management responsibility is not command over people. It is responsibility for contribution. Function rather than power has to be the distinctive criterion and the organizing principle.
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007 |
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…management is not business management. It pertains to every human effort that brings together in one organization people of diverse knowledge and skills.
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021 |
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Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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023 |
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Business enterprise (or any other institution) has only one true resource: people. It performs by making human resources productive.
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028 |
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…the need for a secure retirement income will increasingly focus people’s minds on the future value of the investment. Corporations… have to pay attention to both their short-term business results and their long-term-performance, as providers of retirement benefits.
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059 |
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Organization is not an absolute. It is a tool for making people productive in working together.
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068 |
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One [principle of organization] is surely that organization has to be transparent. People have to know and have to understand the organization structure they are supposed to work in.
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069 |
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It is a sound principle that one person in an organization should have only one ‘master.’
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069 |
