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
management institutions
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.
expression order progress
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior...
intuitive managers
The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
management evolve
Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.
reform paid customers
Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.
manage
You can't manage what you don't measure.
knowledge-workers assets institutions
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
information becoming different
Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.
mistake decision answers
The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.
measurement measure-for-measure cant-change
If you can't measure it, you can't change it.
mother compassion world
Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.
enormous management managers number retired
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
american-businessman business create purpose
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
call consists difficult management people work
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work