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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.3.18 Management must focus on the results and performance of the organization. Indeed, the first task of management is to define what results and performance are in a given organization——and this, as anyone who has worked on it can testify is in itself one of the most difficult, one of the most controversial, but also one of the most important tasks. It is therefore the specific function of management to organize the resources of the organization for results outside the organization. The new assumption——and the basis for the new paradigm on which management, both as a discipline and as a practice has to be based——is therefore: Management exists for the sake of the institution's results. It has to start with the intended results and has to organize the resources of the institution to attain these results. It is the organ to make the institution, whether business, church, university, hospital or a battered women's shelter, capable of producing results outside of itself. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century ·Chapter1》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)