More by Peter Drucker
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)
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)
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