Peter Druck Some comments on Managment

[md]

    * "In fact, that management has a need for advanced education - as well as for systematic manager development - means only that management today has become an institution of our society."[29]
    * "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
    * "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
    * "What's measured improves."
    * “Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”
    * “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."
    * “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
    * “People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
    * “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
    * “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
    * “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
    * “When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
    * "Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
    * "To focus on contribution is to focus on effectiveness." [30]
    * "People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are." [31]
    * "Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
    * "Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

[raju]

Nice sharing...helpful.  Regards, Raju