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 is a practice rather than a science or profession, though containing elements of both.

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Management:

The management function, the work of management, its tasks and its dimensions are universal and do not vary from country to country.

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Management:

Responsibility for contribution, rather than genius is the manager’s basic requirement.

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Management:

The emergence of management has converted knowledge from social ornament and luxury into the true capital of any economy.

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Management:

…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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Management:

One important advance in the discipline and in the practice of management is that both now embrace entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Management:

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations.

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Management:

Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

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Management:

…[managers] represent power – and power has to be accountable, has to be legitimate. They have not yet faced up to the fact that they matter.

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Management:

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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