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
men personality tasks
An employer has no business with a man's personality. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
believe data world
I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.
mean information action
The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
believe leader needs
Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.
change yesterday logic
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
art war growth
The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
thinking political needs
Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.
people together needs
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.
art war two
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
thinking half unions
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
jobs people managers
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
inspirational leadership wise
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
inspirational encouraging wise
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
inspirational wise peace
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.