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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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.
innovation age doe
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.
efficiency productivity right-thing
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
morning book school
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.
motivation goal achieve
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
real men thinking
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.
greatness giving-money people
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.
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.
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.
retirement jobs humorous
There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
groups relation humans
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.
congruence
Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.