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There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology, society, economy, and institutions.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
The fault is in the system and not in the men.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.
The Effective Executive (1966)
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
There is a definite trend in Italy and Germany to eliminate profit participation and the ownership rights of nonmanaging partners and shareholders.
The End of Economic Man (1939)
Management has authority only as long as it performs.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
The Practice of Management (1954)
"Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)
Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
Adventures of a Bystander (1979)
With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
The End of Economic Man (1939)