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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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.
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His great strength was not his charisma, as many commonly thought, but that he knew exactly what he could do and what he could not do.
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Knowledge workers are neither farmers nor labor nor business; they are employees of organizations.
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People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.
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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
leadership management
Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Because its purpose is to create a customer, your business has two purposes and two purposes only: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation make you money, generate sales, produce profit. Everything else is an expense...
future
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
deep-understanding excellence weakness
Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
loyalty attitude men
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"-he owes performance and nothing else. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
excellence enemy adequacy
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
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Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.