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:

A performance record must include mistakes. It must include failures. It must reveal a person’s limitations as well as strengths.

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Management:

The better a person is, the more mistakes she will make – for the more new things she will try.

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Management:

A management that does not define performance as a balance of success and failure over a period of time is a management that mistakes conformity for achievement, and absence of weaknesses for strengths.

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Management:

The person who consistently renders poor or mediocre performance should be removed from the job for his or her own good.

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Management:

Performance is… the consistent ability to produce results over prolonged periods of time and in a variety of assignments.

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Management:

One owes it to the manager’s subordinates not to tolerate poor performance in their boss. They have a right to be managed with competence, dedication, and achievement.

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Management:

…where loyalty has been received, loyalty is due.

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Management:

An organization will have a high spirit of performance if it is consistently directed toward opportunity rather than toward problems.

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Management:

A management that wants to create and maintain the spirit of achievement… stresses opportunity. But it will also demand that opportunities be converted into results.

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Management:

One has got to face up to a very simple, very brutal, very harsh rule – one starves the problems and one feeds the opportunities.

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