Masters of Management Quotes

“Peter Drucker once noted that “no institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under the leadership of perfectly normal human beings.” Warren Buffet made the same point more pithily: “I only invest in companies which any fool can run, because some day some fool will run it.”
― Adrian Wooldridge, Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse

“They can also sell the same products in different ways to different groups of consumers (Britain’s Viz magazine, with its fat slags and foul-mouthed yobs, is sold as a comic magazine in the south of the country but as an upmarket style guide in the north).”
― Adrian Wooldridge, Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse