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
organization symptoms committees
Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
skills discipline listening
Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.
ideas leader moral
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
tools logic materials
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
behavior
Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
organization confusion three
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
institutions results performances
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?
time manage time-management
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
positive-thinking miracle action
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
wall educational important
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.
future trying
Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!
procrastination productive-work productive-life
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
years may up-to-you
It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.
knowledge tree forests
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.