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
wells wrong-things
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
waiting management obsolete
Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.
facts doe opinion
One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.
groups relation humans
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.
yesterday tomorrow
Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.
focus cost may
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
strategy structure missions
Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.
remember irrelevant
We always remember best the irrelevant.
generations lifetime individual
A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.
teaching training development
Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.
leadership opportunity thinking
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
resources enterprise managers
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.
teaching mba skills
Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.
mistake care good-intentions
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.