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:

When we speak of growth and development, we imply that the human being himself determines what he contributes.

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Management:

…if an enterprise fails to perform, we rightly hire not different workers but a new president.

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Management:

To discharge its job, to produce economic goods and services, the business enterprise has to have impacts on people, on communities, and on society.

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Management:

…economic performance comes first – it is the aim of the enterprise and the reason for its existence.

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Management:

…if work and worker are grossly mismanaged, there will be no economic performance, no matter how good the chief executive may be in managing the business.

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Management:

Managers also have to be entrepreneurs. The have to redirect resources from areas of low or diminishing results to areas of high or increasing results… They have to create tomorrow.

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Management:

Effectiveness is the foundation of success – efficiency is a minimum condition for survival after success has been achieved.

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Management:

Efficiency is concerned with doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.

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Management:

Making the business of tomorrow starts out with the conviction that the business of tomorrow will be and must be different.

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Management:

Making the business of tomorrow cannot be a flash of genius. It requires systematic analysis and hard, rigorous work today – and that means by people in today’s business and operating within it.

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