Character Quote by Peter Drucker

“Many of you remember when Dutch Elm disease swept the East Coast. People in big cities saw the trees die but it didn’t register,…

— Rita Mae Brown

Even trees do not die without a groan.

— Henry David Thoreau

“There was room for them. A great deal of Italy, back then, was forest. Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending…

— Peter Drucker

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above…

— Peter Drucker

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able…

— Peter Drucker

The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management…

— Peter Drucker

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the…

— Peter Drucker

An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

— Peter Drucker

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

— Peter Drucker

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn