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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.3.19 Conclusion This chapter has not tried to give answers——intentionally so. It has tried to raise questions. But underlying all of these is one insight. The center of a modern society, economy and community is not technology. It is not information. It is not productivity. It is the managed institution as the organ of society to produce results. And management is the specific tool, the specific function, the specific instrument to make institutions capable of producing results. This, however, requires a FINAL new management paradigm: Management's concern[kənˈsɜːrn] and management's responsibility are everything that affects the performance of the institution and its results——whether inside or outside, whether under the institution's control or totally beyond it. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century ·Chapter1》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)