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
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management evolve
Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.
needs tools made
The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
country law suffering
We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .
impact causes dropping
Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
may ends usefulness
A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
years decision risk
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.
doctors people nurse
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.
government evil needs
No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.
jobs years people
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?
jobs book school
The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.
communication want propaganda
Communication is always " propaganda ." The emitter always wants "to get something across.
meaningful jobs opportunity
Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.
jobs reality eight
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job . In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.
corporations modern responsible
In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.