“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 71; the earliest published occurrence of such remarks yet located were those of Jim Low in "The Human in Public Relations" a diner address in Proceedings, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Research Institute, October 13-14, 1958, Washington, Pt. 3, p. 83
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