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:

The one thing that can be guaranteed in any kind of operation is the daily crisis. The daily crisis cannot be postponed; it has to be dealt with right away. And the existing operation demands high priority and deserves it.

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Management:

…entrepreneurship and innovation can be achieved by any business. But they must be consciously striven for.

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Management:

…the entrepreneurial, the new, has to be organized separately from the old and existing.

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Management:

The people responsible for an existing business will… always be tempted to postpone action on anything new, entrepreneurial, or innovative until it is too late.

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Management:

Even though the new project… does not rank with existing products, somebody in top management must have the specific assignment to work on tomorrow as an entrepreneur and innovator.

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Management:

Don’t mix managerial units and entrepreneurial ones. Do not ever put the entrepreneurial into the existing managerial component.

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Management:

To be an entrepreneur on the side rarely works.

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Management:

…entrepreneurs know what their innovation is meant to do. And if some other use for it appears, they tend to resent it.

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Management:

One cannot do market research for something genuinely new. One cannot do market research for something that is not yet on the market.

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Management:

The new venture… needs to start out with the assumption that its product or service may find customers in markets no one thought of…

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