Quotes from Peter Drucker
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'
- Peter Drucker
If analysis shows that someone's brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy - that is, a lack of manners.
- Peter Drucker
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
- Peter Drucker
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
- Peter Drucker
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter Drucker
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
- Peter Drucker
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
- Peter Drucker
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.
- Peter Drucker
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
- Peter Drucker
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
- Peter Drucker
What gets measured gets managed.
- Peter Drucker