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The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
The Practice of Management (1954)
The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
The Future of Industrial Man (1942)
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
The Future of Industrial Man (1942)
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
The Practice of Management (1954)
Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
The Practice of Management (1954)
Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.
The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)