Organization Quotes by Peter Drucker

In most organizations, the bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

— Peter Drucker

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

— Peter Drucker

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

— Peter Drucker

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

— Peter Drucker

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

— Peter Drucker

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.

— Peter Drucker

The organization is, above all, social. It is people.

— Peter Drucker

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

— Peter Drucker

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

— Peter Drucker

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

— Peter Drucker

The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

— Peter Drucker

In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no…

— Peter Drucker

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many…

— Peter Drucker

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

— Peter Drucker

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

— Peter Drucker

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years…

— Peter Drucker

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If…

— Peter Drucker

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges…

— Peter Drucker

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business,…

— Peter Drucker

An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are…

— Peter Drucker

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

The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly…

— Peter Drucker

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make…

— Peter Drucker

People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked…

— Peter Drucker

Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social…

— Peter Drucker

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

Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.

— Peter Drucker

The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people.

— Peter Drucker

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

— Peter Drucker

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

— Peter Drucker

Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.

— Peter Drucker

Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

— Peter Drucker

Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at…

— Peter Drucker

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

— Peter Drucker

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

— Peter Drucker

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the…

— Peter Drucker

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things…

— Peter Drucker

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

— Peter Drucker

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity…

— Peter Drucker

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to…

— Peter Drucker