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
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
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
Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so. — 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
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
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
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
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If… — 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
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
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way… — 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
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. — 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
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of… — 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
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
Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. — 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
Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach . — 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
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — 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
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 Image
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker” — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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 Image
The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?" — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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 Image
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
