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
men effectiveness systematic
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
effectiveness keys priorities
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."
moving effectiveness steps
As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.
wise effectiveness together
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
effectiveness way determined
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
effectiveness race quality
The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
effectiveness focus secret
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
effectiveness confusion done
What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
man mistakes
The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
basic concentration constantly economic key principle principles today violated
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
communication hear
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
costs customers gives hard pay product quality
A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
generally mistakes people risks
People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.
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.