Management Quotes by Peter Drucker · Page 2

Manage yourself and then your company.

— Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

— Peter Drucker

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

— Peter Drucker

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come…

— Peter Drucker

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

— Peter Drucker

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

— Peter Drucker

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge…

— Peter Drucker

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

— Peter Drucker

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

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and…

— Peter Drucker

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

— Peter Drucker

Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet…

— Peter Drucker

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

— Peter Drucker

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things…

— Peter Drucker

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

— Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

— Peter Drucker

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up…

— Peter Drucker

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have…

— Peter Drucker

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to…

— Peter Drucker

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

— Peter Drucker

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

— Peter Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

— Peter Drucker

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

— Peter Drucker

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation…

— Peter Drucker

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

— Peter Drucker