Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate… — Peter Drucker Copy Share
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker” — Peter Drucker Copy Share
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for… — Peter Drucker Copy Share
The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?" — Peter Drucker Copy Share
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share
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