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:

There will always be, one can assume, a need for some selling. But the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

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Management:

Above all, ‘innovation’ is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology. Nontechnical innovation – social or economic innovations – are at least as important as technological ones.

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Management:

Innovation can be defined as the task of endowing human and material resources with new and greater wealth-producing capacity.

100

Management:

Risk-taking decisions… are made every day by a host of people of subordinate rank, very often by people without a traditional managerial title or position.

100

Management:

The consumer – that is, the ultimate user of a product or service – is always a customer. But he is never the customer; there are usually at least two, sometimes more.

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Management:

What is our business?’ is almost always a difficult question and the right answer is usually anything but obvious.

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Management:

That business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important single cause of business frustration and business failure.

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Management:

With respect to the definition of business purpose and mission, there is only one such focus, one starting point. It is the customer. The customer defines the business.

101

Management:

To wait until a business or an industry is in trouble is playing Russian roulette. It is irresponsible management.

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Management:

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it. It always creates new realities. It always creates, above all, its own and different problems.

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