We Have Found That Companies Need To

Don't Worry About The Level Of Individual Prominence You Have Achieved; Worry About The Individuals You Have Helped Become Better People.

My Conclusion: Management Is The Most Noble Of Professions If It's Practiced Well. No Other Occupation Offers As Many Ways To Help Others Learn And Grow, Take Responsibility And Be Recognized For Achievement, And Contribute To The Success Of A Team.

Many Think Of Management As Cutting Deals And Laying People Off And Hiring People And Buying And Selling Companies. That's Not Management, That's Deal Making. Management Is The Opportunity To Help People Become Better People. Practiced That Way, It's A Magnificent Profession.

Because These Firms Listened To Their Customers, Invested Aggressively In New Technologies That Would Provide Their Customers More And Better Products Of The Sort They Wanted, And Because They Carefully Studied Market Trends And Systematically Allocated Investment Capital To Innovations That Promised The Best Returns, They Lost Their Positions Of Leadership.

Often They [writers On The Study Of Management] Have A Point Of View Based Upon Intuition And Experience. They Then Offer A Cadence Of Two-paragraph Examples Carefully Selected To "prove" Their Theory, And Then They Write "one Size Fits All" Books. The Message Is, "if You'd Do What These Companies Did, You'd Be Successful Too."