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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker2020.2.18 What matters most in a social discipline such as management are therefore the basic assumptions. And a CHANGE in the basic assumptions matters even more. Since the study of management first began-and it truly did not emerge until the 1930s-TWO SETS of assumptions regarding the REALITIES of management have been held by most scholars, most writers and most practitioners: One set of assumptions underlies the DISCIPLINE of management: 1.Management is Business Management. 2.There is-or there must be-ONE right organization structure. 3.There is-or there must be-ONE right way to manage people. Another set of assumptions underlies the PRACTICE of Management: 1.Technologies, markets and end-uses are given. 2.Management's scope is legally defined. 3.Management is internally focused. 4.The economy as defined by national boundaries is the "ecology" of enterprise and management.——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century·Chapter1》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)