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:

Managerial jobs should… be designed to allow a person to grow, to learn, and to develop for many years to come. There is little harm, as a rule, in a job that is designed too big.

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Management:

…there are few things quite as dangerous as an organization in which promotions are so rapid as to become the accepted reward for doing a decent job.

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Management:

A management group that is all of the same age is a management group headed for crisis.

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Management:

The managerial job must have specific objectives and a specific purpose and function. A manager must be able to make a contribution that can be identified. The manager must be accountable.

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Management:

Managing is work. But it is not, by itself, full-time work… As a rule, the manager should be both a manager and an individual career professional.

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Management:

As far as possible, a manager’s j ob should be designed so that it can be done by one person working alone and with the people in the unit that he or she manages.

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Management:

…one can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

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Management:

Titles do create expectations. They do imply rank and responsibility. To use them as empty gestures – that is, as substitutes for rank and responsibility – is asking for trouble.

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Management:

…organization structure has to be impersonal and task focused. Otherwise it is impossible to have continuity and to have people succeed each other.

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Management:

Style’ should never be a consideration, either in designing a managerial job or in filling it. ‘Style’ is packaging. The only substance is performance.

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