An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will… — 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
It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have… — 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
Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or… — 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
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
