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
doe utility products
What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer.
reflection action quiet
Follow effective action with quiet reflection.
teaching training development
Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.
country agents knowledge-workers
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.
decision today faces
The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?
decision world making-decisions
Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.
horse government knees
If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.
horse government knees
If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.
leadership opportunity thinking
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
ideas listening asking
Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.
impact desert succeed
The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.
resources enterprise managers
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.
achievement
Leadership is an achievement of trust.
teaching mba skills
Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.