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
pursuit contribution
Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.
business organization doe
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
important managers
What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.
management brilliant
Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.
hype leader three
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
hero pay next
In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.
organization people decision
Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.
teacher teaching men
There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.
want development ifs
If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development.
want ifs
If you want to predict the future create it.
wells wrong-things
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
years organization minorities
The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
definitions purpose missions
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
too-much reorganization goes-on
Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.