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
future
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
future trying
Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!
change wise future
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
country business future
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
leadership future-leaders great-leader
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
work future entrepreneur
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
inspirational business future
Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
management ninety objectives percent time works
Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
management ninety objectives percent time works
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
leadership management
Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.
employees farmers knowledge labor neither nor workers
Knowledge workers are neither farmers nor labor nor business; they are employees of organizations.
apply behavior ethics individual rules
There is only one ethics, one set of rules of morality, one code: That of individual behavior in which the same rules apply to everyone alike.
resource time
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
call consists difficult management people work
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work