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 ninety objectives percent time works
Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
management ninety objectives percent time works
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
call consists difficult management people work
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work
employees farmers knowledge labor neither nor workers
Knowledge workers are neither farmers nor labor nor business; they are employees of organizations.
knowledge-workers assets institutions
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
work yesterday society
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
practice work-out looks
Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
believe hard-work men
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.
work trying right-thing
Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.
important needs knowledge-workers
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
country agents knowledge-workers
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.
work technology intellectual
The computer is a moron.
wise business work
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
procrastination productive-work productive-life
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.