"A primary task of management in the..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
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“The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.”
“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”
“Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.”
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“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.”
“Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.”
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
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“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).”
“All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.”
“A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”