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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choices done answers
There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.
One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.
degenerates action ifs
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
top-management innovation challenges
Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
measurement measure-for-measure cant-change
If you can't measure it, you can't change it.
technology men tools
Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.
business organization doe
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
joy vision execution
Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results
want time-management needs
If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!
learning knowledge unique
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.
manage
You can't manage what you don't measure.
reform paid customers
Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.
knowledge learning volunteer
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
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.