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If You Work for a Company that Doesn’t Believe in Marketing, Resign

Dan McDade - 27 August 2018

 
Economist Milton Friedman said the main purpose of a business is to maximize profits for its owners (for a publicly-traded company, it’s for the stockholders).
Jim Cathcart says, the purpose of business is to “make life better for someone.” He means create a product that solves a need, and where profit is the result. 
Peter Drucker is more widely quoted as saying “Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and only two—basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.”       
Get a copy of Peter Drucker’s maxim on the Purpose of Business: go here.
With today’s wide choice of communications channels, it isn’t difficult to take someone’s definition, such as Drucker’s, and poop all over it with

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