Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. — 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
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
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
...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
To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent — 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 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
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military… — 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
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities. — 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
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
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
The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people. — 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
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
Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization. — 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
