Maximizing the Strength of Employees from The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
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Organization is a means of multiplying the strength of an individual.
A lone entrepreneur who is good at finance but bad at marketing is likely to get in trouble.
A large business can easily make productive a man who has true strength in finance alone.
Average is a meaningless metric in personnel management. (For example, average lost time accidents per hundred employees).
Whoever tries to staff an organization to avoid weakness will end up at best with mediocrity.
The job that fails two people in succession, even though each had performed well in previous assignments, must be assumed unfit for human beings.
The job must be redesigned.
The executive must also bring the strength out of himself.
The effective executive asks himself, “What are the things that I seem to be able to do with relative ease, while they come rather hard to other people?”
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