The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates… — 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
Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive. — 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