“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”

Managing, Chapter Four (Two Organizational Structures), p. 69.

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American businessman 1910–1997

Wheeler L. Baker (1938) President of Hargrave Military Academy

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Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager

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“Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.”

Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002) British theorist, consultant, and professor

Source: Management Science (1968), Chapter 1, Processes and Policies, p. 10.

“Decisions should be pushed down as far as possible, to the level of competence. This allows senior managers more time for making decisions of a more complex nature”

Robert Heller (1932–2012) British magician

Source: The Pocket Manager, (1987), p. 72

“If we look at the discipline of software engineering, we see that the microeconomics branch of economics deals more with the types of decisions we need to make as software engineers or managers.”

Barry Boehm (1935) American software engineer

Source: Software engineering economics. (1984), p. 4

“A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 43

“Management — The definition that includes all the other definitions in this book and which, because of that, is the most general and least precise. Its concrete, people meaning — the board of directors and all executives with the power to make decisions — is no problem, except for the not-so-little matter of where to draw the line between managers who are part of "the management" and managers who are not.”

Robert Heller (1932–2012) British magician

Source: The Pocket Manager, (1987), p. 161

“The American system of management, in my opinion, also relies too much on outsiders to help make business decisions., and this is because of the insecurity that American decision makers feel in their jobs, as compared with most top Japanese corporate executives.”

Akio Morita (1921–1999) Japanese businessman

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 178.

“In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Future of Industrial Man (1942), p. 64

“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”

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