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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.6.12 冠鼎学院（GA）——识别·培养·考验未来的领导者 But, as we began to realize around the time of World War Ⅱ, neither preservation of assets nor cost control is a top management task. They are OPERATIONAL TASKS. A serious cost disadvantage may indeed destroy a business. But business success is based on something totally different, the creation of value and wealth. This requires resk-taking decisions: on the theory of the business, on business strategy, on abandoning the old and innovating the new, on the balance between immediate profitability and market share. It requires strategic decisions based on the New Certainties discussed in Chapter 2. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter4 Information Challenges》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)