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
Leadership is more doing than dash.
real achiever one-thing-at-a-time
The real achiever do one thing at a time.
organization tasks norm
Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.
school responsibility preparation
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.
vision paradox prophet
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
reality marketing want
True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"
world wealth economy
I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.
teamwork play people
Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.
innovation vision done
Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
change firm great-change
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.
opportunity yesterday problem
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
management
What's measured improves
jobs skills numbers
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
weakness persons performances
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.