No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legit… - Peter Drucker

Above all, disagreement is needed to stimulate the imagination. One may not need imagination to find the one right solution to a problem. But then this is of value only in mathematics. In all matters of true uncertainty such as the executive deals with — whether his sphere be political, economic, social, or military — one needs creative solutions which create a new situation. And this means that one needs imagination — a new and different way of perceiving and understanding.

The rule is simple: Any job that has defeated two or three men in succession, even though each had performed well in his previous assignments, must be assumed unfit for human beings. It must be redesigned.

Is this still worth doing?” And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.