Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
Management is an organized body of knowledge. "This book," in Peter Drucker'swords, "tries to equip the manager with the understanding, the thinking, the knowledge and the skills for today'sand also tomorrow's jobs." This management classic has been developed and tested during more than thirty years of teaching management in universities, in executive programs and seminars and through the author's close work with managers as a consultant for large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools. Drucker discusses the tools and techniques of successful management practice that have been proven effective, and he makes them meaningful and easily accessible.
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Organizations exist to serve society.
The purpose of a business is to create and serve a customer.
A key task for top management is to define the business and what it should be.
Operations are growing and optimizing existing things while Innovation is creating the new.
Managers, above all, must accept responsibility to make individual strengths productive and workers achieving.
Maybe sounds basic to you, but with all the stories and examples, this transformed my way of thinking and filled many holes in my mind that opened up over the last years in my career.
Very few people will read this book due to its length, but I believe every manager can learn a lot from this. Fully recommended.
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