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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.

— Peter Drucker The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

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The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

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There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.

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The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.

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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

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