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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.3.3 The One Right Way to Manage People In no other area are the basic traditional assumptions held as firmly——though mostly subconsciously——as in respect to people and their management. And in no other area are they so totally at odds with reality and so totally counterproductive. "Thete is one right way to manage people——or at least there should be." This assumption underlies practically every book or paper on the management of people. I became an immediate convert——Maslow's evidence is over-whelming. But to date very few people have paid much attention. On this fundamental assumption that there is——or at least should be——one and only one right way to manage people, rest all the other assumptions about people in organizations and their management. One of these assumptions is that the people who work for an organization are employees of the organization, working full-time, and depended on the organization for their livelihood and their careers. Another such assumption is that the people who work for an organization are subordinates. Indeed, it is assumed that the great majority of these people have either no skill or low skills and do what they are being assigned to do. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century·Chapter1》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)