Peter Drucker Quotes
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That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society 'post-capitalist.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
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The Nazi agitator whom, many years ago, I heard proclaim to a wildly cheering peasants’ meeting: ‘We don’t want lower bread prices, we don’t want higher bread prices, we don’t want unchanged bread prices-we want National-Socialist bread prices,’ came nearer explaining fascism than anybody I have heard since.
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There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
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Once a year ask the boss, 'What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?' and 'What do I or my people do that hampers you?'
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We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.
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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: 'I know what Anne or John is trying to do.'
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Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
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Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
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The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
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Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
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The ‘total state’ of fascism is not a political alignment within the existing political and social setup, but that it is a revolution which, like all revolutions, works from without.
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Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.
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For if this country... were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.
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I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
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Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
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Morale in an organization does not mean that 'people get along together'; the test is performance not conformance.
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The society of organizations\\ is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Decisions exist only in the present.