Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. — 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
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. — 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
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. — 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
...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence. — 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
In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever. — 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
Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are… — 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
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
Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity… — 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
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
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
Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the… — 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
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
