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
remember irrelevant
We always remember best the irrelevant.
focus cost may
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
ideas listening asking
Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.
jobs organization people
Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.
planning results succession
Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.
new-ventures organization reason
Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.
generations lifetime individual
A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.
people resources grows
People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.
definitions resources enterprise
The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.
teaching training development
Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.
country agents knowledge-workers
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.
character leader quality
Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.
gone moments periods
"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.
doe oboes should
Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.