“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
“The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.”
Source: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987), p. 34.
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