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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Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.
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In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge
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The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.
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We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad. We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order. We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
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The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work
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The overseer of the unskilled peasants who dragged stone for the pyramids did not concern himself with morale or motivation,
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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.