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
long management authority
Management has authority only as long as it performs.
horse cities people
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.
horse cities people
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.
skills decision firsts
Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.
communication want propaganda
Communication is always " propaganda ." The emitter always wants "to get something across.
practice work-out looks
Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
years political three
The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.
top-management people benefits
what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
cities organization community
human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.
responsibility decision accountability
Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.
priorities picks
It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
transformation
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
management institutions
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.
corporations modern responsible
In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.