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
Peter Drucker quotes about
- yesterday
- tomorrow
- inspirational
- change
- leadership
- management
- evolve
- intuitive
- managers
- perception
- fragility
- dangerous
- institutions
- effectiveness
- focus
- secret
- deep-understanding
- excellence
- weakness
- risk
- definitions
- agents
- change-agent
- measurement
- measure-for-measure
- cant-change
- top-management
- innovation
- challenges
- people
writing important happens
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.
degenerates strategy
All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.
military fighting organization
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.
skills discipline listening
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
growth luck prosperity
Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.
country successful government
Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.
agents change-agent
Business is society's change agent.
ideas people
I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.
results company
Results is all that separates one company from another.
decision tests causes
Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.
live-life space too-much
If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
taught-us people adoption
The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.
results
Leadership is all about getting results.
successful people needs
Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.