Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the bourgeois under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.
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.. Throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.. Our word school--and its equivalent in all European languages--derives from a Greek word meaning leisure.
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