Book Titles

Management

By Peter Drucker

Year Published: 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0061252662
Categories: Leadership, Management, Organization

355 Quotes Found

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Management:

…management precedes and even outranks ownership. The owner has to subordinate himself to the enterprise’s need for management and managers.

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Management:

Without the institution, there would be no management. But without management, there would be only a mob rather than an institution.

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Management:

Management is tasks. Management is discipline. But management is also people.

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Management:

Every achievement of management is the achievement of a manager. Every failure is a failure of a manager.

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Management:

The vision, dedication, and integrity of managers determine whether there is management or mismanagement.

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Management:

…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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Management:

As long as measurements are abused as a tool of control, measuring will remain the weakest area in the manager’s performance.

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Management:

What a manager does can be analyzed systematically.

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Management:

What a manager has to be able to do can be learned. But there is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius: it is character.

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Management:

…the ultimate test of management is performance. Achievement rather than knowledge remains, of necessity, both aim and proof.

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