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The Daily Drucker
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The Daily Drucker

by Peter F. Drucker
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
8h 21m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
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The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, malperformance.

The pioneers of management a century ago were right: organizational structure is needed. The modern enterprise needs organization. But the pioneers were wrong in their assumption that there is—or should be—one right organization. Instead of searching for the right organization, management needs to learn to look for, to develop, to test, the organization that fits the task.

There are some “principles” of organization. One is that organization has to be transparent. People have to know and have to understand the organization structure they are supposed to work in. Someone in the organization must have the ...

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