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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wise business work
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
funny hilarious education
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
ideas leader moral
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
education wise knowledge
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
culture breakfast strategy
Culture eats strategy for breakfast,
envy evil hatred
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
may able ships
Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
complexity manageable
There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
teacher retirement teaching
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
distance classroom campus
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
behavior
Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
procrastination productive-work productive-life
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
positive-thinking miracle action
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
knowledge tree forests
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.