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
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. — 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
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
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
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
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 productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each… — 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 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
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
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs. — 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 great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity… — 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
Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management. — 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
