Peter F. Drucker
“No one has ever fully proven that others can really be managed. However, you can always manage yourself. It’s difficult to think that bosses could manage their employees if they cannot manage themselves to achieve success.”
“To BE effective – this is what the boss is supposed to do.”
“Two hundred people, of course, can do a lot more work than one person can. This does not mean, however, that they will do more and make a greater contribution [to the company].”
"Pracy umysłowej nie określa jej ilość ani jej koszty, lecz wyniki. I dlatego wielkość zespołu i ogrom pracy kierowniczej nie mówią nic."
“Knowledge-based work cannot be described in terms of its quantity or its costs. It’s results that matter. This is why the size of a team or the amount of management mean nothing.”
“Effective managers, whom I came to know, were very different in terms of temperament and skills, what they did and how they did it, personality, interests – actually, they differed in almost every way possible. They had one thing in common – they could get done what needed to be done.”