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Management:
All economic activity… requires three kinds of resources: land, that is products of nature; labor, that is, human resources; and capital, that is, the means to invest in tomorrow.
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109 |
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Management:
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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Management:
Society or the economy can put any business out of existence overnight.
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110 |
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Management:
Instead of searching for the right organization, management needs to learn to look for, to develop, to test: The organization that fits the task.
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113 |
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Management:
The purpose of the work on making the future is not to decide what should be done tomorrow, but what should be done today to have a tomorrow.
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113 |
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Management:
There is a time lag between a major social, economic, or cultural event and its full impact.
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114 |
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Management:
Inside the business… there can usually be found clues to events that, while basic and irreversible, have not yet had their full impact.
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116 |
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Management:
…the marketing approach tends to make all functions secondary and… all functions are cost centers rather than producers of results.
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116 |
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Management:
Most people can imagine only what they have already seen.
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116 |
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Management:
The very fact that an entrepreneurial idea does not encompass all of society or all of knowledge but encompasses just one narrow area makes it more viable.
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