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
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- leadership
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- evolve
- intuitive
- managers
- perception
- fragility
- dangerous
- institutions
- effectiveness
- focus
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- deep-understanding
- excellence
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- innovation
- challenges
- people
distance classroom campus
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
decision good-intentions intention
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
cancer growth add
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.
innovation marketing cost
Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.
hard-times elephants cockroaches
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.
mistake failure men
The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.
our-society resources capitalist
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.
innovation making-changes appeals
Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.
productivity
Knowledge applied is productivity.
country mean socialist-countries
If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.
community care common
All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.
rights important-events america
The postwar WWII GI Bill of Rights-and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans-signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.
issues groups moral
Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life." It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed. None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.
weakness performances
You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.