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
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.
business mistake wrong-answers
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
wise effectiveness together
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
plans
The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.
should-have useless tasks
There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.
live-life space too-much
If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
opportunity failing ifs
If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.
jobs cynical challenges
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.
results
Leadership is all about getting results.
power-relationships ifs
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.
taught-us people adoption
The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.
innovation age doe
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.
efficiency productivity right-thing
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
morning book school
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.