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Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.

— Peter Drucker The Age of Discontinuity (1969)

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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)

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

The Practice of Management (1954)

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.

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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.

The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

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