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  2. Management by objectives - Wikipedia

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    Management by objectives (MBO), also known as management by planning (MBP), was first popularized by Peter Drucker in his 1954 book The Practice of Management. [1] Management by objectives is the process of defining specific objectives within an organization that management can convey to organization members, then deciding how to achieve each objective in sequence.

  3. Peter Drucker - Wikipedia

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    Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/ ˈ d r ʌ k ər /; German:; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory.

  4. Concept of the Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Drucker's biographer Jack Beatty referred to it as "a book about business, the way Moby Dick is a book about whaling". [ 1 ] In writing and researching the book, Drucker was given access to General Motors resources, paid a full salary, accompanied CEO Alfred P. Sloan to meetings, and was given free run of the company.

  5. Theory of Change - Wikipedia

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    Its earlier origins can be traced to Peter Drucker's articulation of Management by Objectives, popularized in his 1954 book The Practice of Management. Management by Objectives requires identifying higher-order Goals, and lower-order Objectives which, if achieved, are expected to result in the Goals being achieved.

  6. Strategic management - Wikipedia

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    Management theorist Peter F Drucker wrote in 1954 that it was the customer who defined what business the organization was in. [16] In 1960 Theodore Levitt argued that instead of producing products then trying to sell them to the customer, businesses should start with the customer, find out what they wanted, and then produce it for them.

  7. Span of control - Wikipedia

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    Peter Drucker [2] refers to this principle as the span of managerial responsibility. See also ... Drucker, Peter (1954). The practice of management. New York ...

  8. In Search of Excellence - Wikipedia

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    Before and after In Search of Excellence, Peter Drucker was probably the preeminent management theorist. [11] Drucker presaged and covered similar perspectives to Peters and Waterman's approach to management theory, for example in Drucker's 1954 book The Practice of Management. Peters first read Drucker's The Effective Executive in 1968. [12]

  9. Cross-functional team - Wikipedia

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    Since Peter Drucker in 1954 book The Practice of Management published his views on management by objectives, business decision making has become more goal-oriented.