I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What… — 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
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of… — 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
