Comments on: First we need to wake up by Raymond Hofmann https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/first-we-need-to-wake-up-by-raymond-hofmann/ Wed, 11 May 2016 10:49:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 By: Raymond Hofmann https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/first-we-need-to-wake-up-by-raymond-hofmann/#comment-56967 Wed, 11 May 2016 10:49:11 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=1209#comment-56967 In reply to Mike Jackt.

Thank you, Mike, for your comment and the story about hiring a younger worker and letting him be entrepreneurial. Very much in the spirit of Drucker’s removing barriers to performance. Or has Steve Jobs has put it: “It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell US what to do.”

]]> By: Mike Jackt https://www.druckerforum.org/blog/first-we-need-to-wake-up-by-raymond-hofmann/#comment-56955 Wed, 11 May 2016 00:09:11 +0000 http://www.druckerforum.org/blog/?p=1209#comment-56955 I’ve read a lot of Mr. Drucker’s work, my favorite being “Managing in a Time of Great Change” from the 90’s. I’m happy to say I’ve incorporated many things I’ve learned from his books, including the idea of removing barriers and promoting entrepreneurship. My company wasn’t doing poorly, but our growth pattern in our local region has stalled out, until I hired a younger worker who had some ideas. I allowed him to focus where he wanted and he went straight to the Internet to work on our website. It’s had a tremendous impact for us, so in my opinion, Mr. Drucker’s words are gold.

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