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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military fighting organization
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.
people tasks doe
One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.
two long entrepreneur
Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.
mean decision important
Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.
technology benefits new-technology
For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.
wells wrong-things
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
impact desert succeed
The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.
people form organisation
Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.
organization people decision
Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.
want ifs
If you want to predict the future create it.
purpose definitions enterprise
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
doe utility products
What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.
jobs economic goods
Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.
skills discipline listening
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.