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
top-management years europe
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
leadership responsibility leader
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.
technology data organization
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
keys management economic
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.
entrepreneur decision done
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
order office titles
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
effectiveness way determined
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
color car long
When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
facts profit concepts
The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.
party cutting men
In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.
retail insurance-companies company
Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.
country thinking growth
I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
motivational yield resources
When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield.
commitment command objectives
Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.