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
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motivational yield resources
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
weakness performances
You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.
country thinking growth
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
retirement jobs government
That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations -- not just business , but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
color car long
When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
effectiveness way determined
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
order office titles
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
people together needs
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.
top-management years europe
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
baby opportunity ideas
Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?
boss trying able
Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do.
our-society resources capitalist
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.
class people giving
This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.
giving individual social
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.