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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers — a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars — and on up through the university.

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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch & Dinner!

Great Leadership By Dan

He is most known for the concept of environmental turbulence; the contingent strategic success paradigm, a concept that has been validated by numerous research studies; and real-time strategic management. Peter Drucker invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control.

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