When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship… — 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
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or… — 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
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will… — 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
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity… — 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