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
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
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
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts. — 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
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures -… — 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
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 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
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
