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
leadership jobs deployment
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.
science mathematics creeds
There are no creeds in mathematics.
innovation society normal
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
management
What's measured improves
leadership average needs
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
senior business mistake
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
relationship leadership motivation
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
information economy born
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
wise effectiveness together
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
weakness persons performances
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
society our-society individual
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
success opportunity innovation
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.
efficiency productivity right-thing
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
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.