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“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.”

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Author:Anthony Stafford Beer

“Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.”

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Author:Mary Parker Follett

“The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.”

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Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

“Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.”

Wonderful Smart Function Management Trade Agents Wonderful Things Signing Drafting Free Agents

Author:David Stern

“The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.”

Needs Problem Three Majors Function Management Strategy Surveillance Prevention Osteoporosis

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“Leadership produces change. That is its primary function”

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Book:Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management

Source: Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management