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"Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't",
— Peter Drucker
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"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.",
—Paul Hawken, Natural Capitalism
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"I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.",
— Thomas J. Watson, Jr. A Business and its Beliefs (1963)
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"Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.",
— Jack Welch
- "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.",
— Henry Mintzberg McGill University
- "The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.",
— Agha Hasan Abedi