“The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 455
“For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 146
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