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
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. — 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
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him. — 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
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and… — 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
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges… — 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
