According to the management guru Peter Drucker ( 1909 – 2005 ), the basic task of a management is twofold: marketing and innovation.

According to Peter F. Drucker the general sources of innovations are different changes in industry structure, in market structure, in local and global demographics, in human perception, mood and meaning, in the amount of already available scientific knowledge, etc.

According to the chief prosecution witness, Abraham " Pretty " Levine, Sage was riding in a car with Cohen and Drucker when he was stabbed 32 times with an icepick as Levine and Harry Strauss were following in another car.

* Beatty, Jack, The World According to Peter Drucker ( 1998 ), ISBN 0-684-83801-X

According to Klein and Ralston, the merging of companies into giant corporations or the privatization of government-run industry and national assets often result in monopolies ( or oligopolies ) requiring government intervention to force competition and reasonable prices.

According to Klein, in response to an economic crash in the 1980s ( Latin American debt crisis, Black Monday ( 1987 ), Savings and loan crisis Japanese asset price bubble ), corporations began to seriously rethink their approach to marketing, and began to target the youth demographic, as opposed to the baby boomers, who had previously been considered a much more valuable segment.

According to the organization's website, members share a common belief that " government closest to the people " is " fundamentally more effective, more just, and a better guarantor of freedom than the distant, bloated federal government in Washington, D. C ." The organization has been described as a " collaboration between multinational corporations and conservative state legislators.

According to First Amendment scholar Floyd Abrams, the Act " was the first law barring unions and corporations from making independent expenditures in support of or opposition to federal candidates.

According to the project's website, it " aims to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interest groups.

According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011 – 2012 made up just 3. 7 % of contributors, but accounted for more than 80 % of the total money raised, while less than 0. 5 % of the money given to “ the most active Super PACs ” was donated by publicly traded corporations.

" According to critics, this order was designed to create as favorable an environment for foreign investors as possible, thereby allowing American and multinational corporations to dominate Iraq's economy.

According to Lorsch and MacIver " many large corporations have dominant control over business affairs without sufficient accountability or monitoring by their board of directors.

According to ECDL Foundation, the ECDL / ICDL certification is recognized and supported by national governments, computer societies ( such as the BCS and ICS ), international organizations and private corporations.

According to the records of the Keserwan Governorate, the town of Ghadir, in 1914, had 433 corporations and its population was 1, 263.

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Waffle House is one of the top four corporations, along with Wal-Mart, The Home Depot and Lowe's, for disaster response.

According to the organization's official website, the mission of the Keidanren is to: accelerate growth of Japan's and world economy and to strengthen the corporations to create additional value to transform Japanese economy into one that is sustainable and driven by the private sector, by encouraging the idea of individuals and local communities.

According to journalist Murray Dobbin, 31 % of the Fraser Institute's revenue come from corporations and 57 % from " business-oriented charitable foundations " such as the right-wing Donner Foundation and the free-market-oriented John Dobson Foundation.

According to a study by Project Censored, " These men represent a portion of the global 1 % who not only control the largest gold and copper mining company in the world, but who are also interconnected by board membership with over two dozen major multinational corporations, banks, foundations, military, and policy groups.

According to World Vision's 2006 Consolidated Financial Statements, around 40 % of their revenue comes from private sources, including individuals, World Vision clubs in schools, corporations and foundations.

According to some analysts, the United States saw these issues simply as barriers to the free flow of communication and to the interests of American media corporations.

According to some analysts, the provincial lottery corporations are already losing more revenue to the offshore firms than they continue to make by tilting the rules and odds in their favour.

According to progressive scholars, American judges steeped in laissez-faire economic theory, who identified with the nation ’ s capitalist class and harbored contempt for any effort to redistribute wealth or otherwise meddle with the private marketplace, acted on their own economic and political biases to strike down legislation that threatened to burden corporations or disturb the existing economic hierarchy.

According to Michael Hudson, even if higher labor-productivity has reduced the value of commodities produced, higher prices can nevertheless be charged when a few large corporations control most of the supply chain for those commodities.

According to Alexander Technique instructor Michael J. Gelb, people tend to study the Alexander Technique either to rid themselves of pain, to increase their performance abilities, or for reasons of personal development and transformation.

According to Strmiska and Sigurvinsson ( 2005 ), American Asatruar tend to prefer a more devotional form of worship and a more emotional conception of the Nordic gods than Scandinavian practitioner, reflecting the parallel tendency of highly emotional forms of Christianity prevalent in the United States.

According to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, characteristics such as camouflage that help an animal to survive will tend to evolve in any population.

According to psychologist Bob Altemeyer, individuals who are politically conservative tend to rank high in Right-Wing Authoritarianism on his RWA scale.

According to Master of Wine Mary Ewing-Mulligan, Chianti Classico wines from the Castellina region tend to have a very delicate aroma and flavor, Castelnuovo Berardegna region wines tend to be the most ripe and richest tasting, wines from Gaiole tend to have been characterized by their structure and firm tannins while wines from the Greve area tend to have very concentrated flavours.

According to classical electromagnetism, two nearby magnetic dipoles will tend to align in opposite directions, so their magnetic fields will oppose one another and cancel out.

According to Matthew Paris, the 13th century chronicler of St Albans Abbey, Abbot Ulsinus ( Wulsin ) founded three churches in 948, reputedly to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the growing number of pilgrims to Alban's shrine: St Peter's, St Stephen's and St Michael's.

According to this typology, some languages are isolating, and have little to no morphology ; others are agglutinative, and their words tend to have lots of easily separable morphemes ; while others yet are inflectional or fusional, because their inflectional morphemes are " fused " together.

According to him, this directly explains the sentiments of shame and sadness which tend to follow the act of sexual intercourse.

According to Trillin, most Kolkata rickshaws serve people " just a notch above poor " who tend to travel short distances.

According to McKey ’ s theory, these pioneer species tend to invest more heavily in pearl bodies and less heavily in Mullerian bodies than more shade-tolerant species with slower intrinsic growth rates and longer leaf life spans.

According to Sverre Bagge, modern historians tend to follow Koht when it comes to see Skule's rebellion as a last desperate attempt to stop Haakon from enroaching his power, but lean closer to Munch's overall evaluation of the two men.

According to the law, the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value, and will tend to become closer as more trials are performed.

According to Islam the Grameen Bank does not reach the poorest, since the clients of the bank tend to be clustered around the poverty line of predominantly moderately poor or vulnerable non-poor.

According to proponents such as James Fearon, another strength of deliberative democratic models is that they tend, more than any other model, to generate ideal conditions of impartiality, rationality and knowledge of the relevant facts.

According to Jerry Suls, a professor at the University of Iowa, people who are depressed and anxious tend to be in rumination.

According to L. Muthoni Wanyeki, the author of Women and Land in Africa: Culture, Religion, and Realizing Women ’ s Rights, " Control over food crops and poultry or goats ( and benefits derived from surpluses of food crops and small farm animals ) tend to rest with women.

According to James P. Smith of the Research and Development Corporation, the children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants tend to lessen educational and income gaps with native whites.

According to Gudykunst and Kim ( 2003 ), unfortunately some people have personalities that are inherently less amenable to such deculturization and training and they tend to be " unrealistic ," " functionally unfit ," and " aggressive " ( pp. 368 – 372 ).

According to the octet rule, the atoms immediately before and after neon in the periodic table ( i. e. C, N, O, F, Na, Mg and Al ), tend to attain a similar configuration by gaining, losing, or sharing electrons.

According to Cicero's personal correspondence, the motive was adultery ( it is said that she was one of Julius Caesar's many affairs, although Pompey's friendship and alliance with Caesar at the time would tend to suggest that Pompey himself either did not regard this rumour as true or did not consider it important ).