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
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that… — 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
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
What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification.… — 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
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is… — 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
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach . — 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
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it. — 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
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
