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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Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.
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It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
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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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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
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People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.
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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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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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Because its purpose is to create a customer, your business has two purposes and two purposes only: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation make you money, generate sales, produce profit. Everything else is an expense...
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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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How can we overcome the resistance to innovation that plagues most organizations?
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First and last, Drucker is a moralist of our business civilization.