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
humor
Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.
knowledge hands people
There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.
leadership jobs deployment
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.
change believe impact
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.
motivation communication believe
Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.
science mathematics creeds
There are no creeds in mathematics.
innovation society normal
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
skills important obsolete
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
leadership average needs
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
relationship leadership motivation
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
business company customers
The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.
success opportunity innovation
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.
information economy born
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
business power information
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.