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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The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
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Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
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Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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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.
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First and last, Drucker is a moralist of our business civilization.
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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.
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Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
management ninety objectives percent time works
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
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Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.