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
organization challenges balance
The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast.
facts
No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.
decision tasks decision-making
Decision making is the specific executive task.
analysis use development
Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.
opportunity innovation listening
Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.
information able purpose
The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
opportunity glasses perception
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
motivational pertinent-questions effort
The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.
leader mass easier
It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
thinking political needs
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.
creativity innovation age
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.
leadership teaching people
People learn the most when teaching others.
perception fragility dangerous
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
leadership want forget
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.