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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opportunity innovation listening
Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.
opportunity glasses perception
If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
success opportunity innovation
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.
meaningful jobs opportunity
Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.
opportunity progress guarantees
Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.
opportunity organization problem
Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.
opportunity problem solve
Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.
opportunity yesterday problem
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
opportunity failing ifs
If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.
baby opportunity ideas
Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?
opportunity doe new-opportunity
Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.
opportunity focus problem
Focus on opportunities, not problems.
jobs successful opportunity
What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.
leadership opportunity thinking
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.