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 perpetuation of a business is a central entrepreneurial task – and ability to do so may well be the most definitive test of a management.

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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:

The new reality is that knowledge is the key resource in society and knowledge workers are the dominant group in the workforce.

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Management:

The knowledge society is a society of seniors and juniors rather than bosses and subordinates.

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Management:

Knowledge workers, whatever their sex, are professionals, applying the same knowledge, doing the same work, governed by the same standards, and judged by the same results.

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Management:

Knowledge workers may have an attachment to an organization and feel comfortable within it, but their primary allegiance is likely to be their specialized branch of knowledge.

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Management:

Knowledge is nonhierarchical. Either it is relevant in a given situation or it is not.

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Management:

Schooling traditionally stopped when work began. In the knowledge society, it never stops.

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Management:

…the ultimate test of management is performance. Achievement rather than knowledge remains, of necessity, both aim and proof.

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Management:

In sharp contrast to yesterday’s workers, to whom a job was first of all a living, most knowledge workers see their job as a life.

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