Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on… — 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
