The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business,… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather… — 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
I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than… — 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 most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you… — 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
