[44666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Fri Dec 7 12:36:26 2001
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:35:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@civicnet.org>
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Petr Swedock wrote:
> Business failure rates are not a function of the number
> of "luminaries" (I'm not even sure I like that word...)
> but of how well those sages are received and heeded. How
> many businesses fail because they didn't read Drucker?
Well... Drucker's classic text book defines the first job of top
management to be "asking the question: What is our business and what
should it be." I've seen an awful lot of businesses fail because they
don't have an answer to that question.
Miles
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