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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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.
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