Peter Drucker Quotes
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...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.
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The citizen of today in every developed country is typically an employee. He works for one of the institutions. He looks to them for his livelihood. He looks to them for his opportunities. He looks to them for access to status and function in society, as well as for personal fulfillment and achievement.
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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The world economy is not yet a community-not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the 'global shopping center' is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.
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The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
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Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.
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That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Profit is not a cause but a result-
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Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
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The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
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When Henry Ford said, 'The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black,' he was not joking.
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The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
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What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole. This 'seeing' is not a matter of information, training courses, conducted plant tours, or similar devices. What is needed is the actual experience of the whole in and through the individual's work.
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In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
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The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
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Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
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We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.