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
motivational simple will-and-determination
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
motivational pertinent-questions effort
The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.
motivational yield resources
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
inspirational life motivational
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
inspirational motivational change
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
motivational business loyal-customers
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
motivational essence survival
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.
motivational leadership business
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
clever 4-hour-work-week motivational-management
What gets measured gets managed.
inspirational motivational business
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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.