"There is no reason to believe that..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.
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“I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.”
“People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.”
“Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.”
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“Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.”
“The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.”
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”