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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His great strength was not his charisma, as many commonly thought, but that he knew exactly what he could do and what he could not do.
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Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.
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No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each man's strength to help all the others perform. The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
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Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
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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.
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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.
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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
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Knowledge workers are neither farmers nor labor nor business; they are employees of organizations.