There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures -… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were… — 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
