This recording is a summary of "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". A narrator gives the summary followed by an interview with Peter Drucker. This recording covers essential tools and characteristics for a manager. A lot of this covers useful one-line advice. The work of a manager consists of planning, organizing, integrating and measuring; managers do not merely supervise. All managerial jobs should be designed to have room to grow. Executives should be wary of "widow maker" jobs, which may need to be reorganized if good managers cannot succeed in them. Managers also need to have sound and valid objectives. When standards are self imposed there is an active desire to do the best possible work. No one should ever be appointed to a senior position unless top management is willing to have this person serve as a model for sub ordinance. The simpler a structure is, the less that can go wrong. People skills are more elastic than technical skills. Some people work the same job for too long and get bored, sometimes one "needs to be re-potted… needs to be put in new soil" and work with new people.
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005 Claremont (Calif.) Teaching Knowledge and learning Tools Executives Management Japanese Decision making Questioning Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966 Organization Sears, Roebuck and Company Marketing Skills for success Automobile industry and trade Citibank (New York, N.Y.) World War II General Motors Company
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MiniDisc: fasttrack Man Apr 1989; Box 89, minidiscs and floppies
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