If
you can’t replicate something because you don’t understand it, then it really
hasn’t been invented, it’s only been done.
When I published The
Practice of Management, fifty years ago, that book made it possible for the
people to learn how to manage, something that up until then only a few geniuses
seemed to be able to do, and nobody could replicate it.
When I came into management, a lot of it came out of
the field of engineering. And a lot of
it came out of accounting. And some of
it came out of psychology. And some more of it came out of labor
relations. Each of those field was
considered separate, and each of them, by itself, was ineffectual. You can’t do carpentry, you know, if you have
only one saw, or only one hammer, or if you have never heard of a pair of
pliers. It’s when you put all of those tools
into one kit that you invent. That’s
what I did in large part in The Practice
of Management. I made a discipline of it.
ACTION POINT: Are your management practices ad hoc
or systematic?
Quoted from The Daily Drucker, January 27 , Page 29
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