So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and… — 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
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. — 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
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
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
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have… — 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
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
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
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
Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. — 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
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
The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. — 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
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. — 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
I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
