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
unique marketing function
Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.
commitment command objectives
Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.
elements problem changed
The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed.
opportunity problem solve
Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.
leadership jobs maturity
The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.
inspirational stupid way
The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.
people
We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.
country tasks management
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
suicide war long
If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.
real shoes results
Shoes are real. Money is an end result.
firsts steps achieve
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
taken government corporations
Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government
priorities picks
It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
responsibility decision accountability
Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.