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
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.
motivation goal achieve
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
art war two
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
real men thinking
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.
art war growth
The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
greatness giving-money people
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.