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
communication hear
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
motivation communication believe
Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.
communication want propaganda
Communication is always " propaganda ." The emitter always wants "to get something across.
communication empathy understanding
To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.
communication mean commitment
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.
communication caring community
For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.
business communication technology
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
communication important cocktails
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
communication information hiding
Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.
apply behavior ethics individual rules
There is only one ethics, one set of rules of morality, one code: That of individual behavior in which the same rules apply to everyone alike.
future
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
business moralist
First and last, Drucker is a moralist of our business civilization.
beyond building higher leadership lifting magnetic normal people performance raising vision
Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
management ninety objectives percent time works
Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.