Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 465
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“One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 475
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Peter F. Drucker book The Essential Drucker
Misattributed
Variant: Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Source: The Essential Drucker
Variant: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
“"Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 185
“Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 761
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 147
I got my degree through E-mail http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0616/5912084a.html, Forbes (June 16, 1997) <br class="br">1990s and later
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 707
“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
Variant: The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said.
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
Variant: There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37