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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needs tools made
The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
technology men tools
Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.
library tools use
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.
jobs use tools
You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.
tools logic materials
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
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
inspirational success confidence
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.