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Concept of the Corporation by Peter F. Drucker — WisdomDeck honest review
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Concept of the Corporation

by Peter F. Drucker

Drucker's 1946 study of General Motors that invented management as a discipline: decentralization, the corporation as social institution. The founding document.

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  1. Decentralize decisions.
  2. Corporations are social institutions.
  3. Study the organization itself.

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