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
leadership management
Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.
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.
inspirational leadership basketball
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
successful differences leader
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'
leader mass easier
It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.
leadership teaching people
People learn the most when teaching others.
leadership want forget
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
leader undoing charisma
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change
race what-matters leader
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.
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.
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.
leadership leader made
Leaders grow; they are not made.
leadership responsibility leader
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.