[From the book: Peter F. Drucker,
The Essential Drucker, Collins Business Essentials, 2009]
- The
fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of
joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and
the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change (4)
- The
emergence of management has converted knowledge from social ornament and luxury
into the true capital of any economy (5)
- Not to
innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing
organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the
failure of new ventures (8)
- The
evolution and history of management— its successes as well as its problems—
teach that management is, above all else, based on a very few, essential
principles (10)
- Management
is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance,
to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant (10)
