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Executives Quotes by Peter Drucker
- Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for…
- An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
- To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and…
- If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
- Decision making is the specific executive task.
- In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.
- An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.
- Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
- Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge…
- Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for…
- No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
- The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole…
More Executives Quotes
- Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- ...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot
- I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records. — L.A. Reid
- Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas.… — Edward de Bono
- In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation… — Karl Albrecht
- To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard
- Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey