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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years two entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society - and especially in the economy - as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. That is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. It was intended as a manifesto and as a declaration of dissent: the entrepreneur upsets and disorganizes. As Joseph Schumpeter formulated it, his task is "creative destruction.
eight years law
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
years political three
The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.
years decision risk
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.
jobs years people
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?
learning knowledge years
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
attitude years careers
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.
art mean years
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.
years assumption theory
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.
writing years four
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.
top-management years europe
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
years organization minorities
The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
smart frustration years
Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.
past years opposites
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.