“A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates”

Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 139

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American business consultant 1909–2005

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