Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even… — 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
What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve? — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must… — 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
The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded… — 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
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
