Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Druckerwas an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management"...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth19 November 1909
Peter Drucker quotes about
thinking half unions
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
long management authority
Management has authority only as long as it performs.
men faults he-man
The fault is in the system and not in the men.
intuitive managers
The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
decision
Decisions exist only in the present.
alternatives anarchy disappear
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
ideas people
I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.
choices done answers
There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.
men effectiveness systematic
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
thinking becoming brainstorming
Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.
One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.
degenerates action ifs
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
top-management innovation challenges
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
measurement measure-for-measure cant-change
If you can't measure it, you can't change it.