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Quotes from Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond — Peter Drucker

1909–2005 Austria

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Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"

Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates

Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."

Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)

The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)

Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.

Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Drucker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.