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
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People are effective because they say 'no,' because they say, 'this isn't for me.' — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people. — 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
In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that… — 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
One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one… — 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
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop… — 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
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds… — 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
