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
opportunity organization problem
Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.
problem come-up dangerous
The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.
elements problem changed
The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed.
opportunity problem solve
Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.
opportunity yesterday problem
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
opportunity focus problem
Focus on opportunities, not problems.
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.
future
The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
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