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Management Quotes by Peter Drucker
- 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 all over the…
- (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it…
- Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force.…
- One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not…
- The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL…
- You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
- In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
- I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
- If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!
- Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.
- Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
- Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification…
- The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
- A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's…
- I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more…
- 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…
- Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with…
- Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.
- The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
- The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.
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