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The Essential Drucker QUOTES

The Essential Drucker QUOTES

1 " To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

2 " Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

3 " Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

4 " Every enterprise requires commitment to common goals and shared values. Without such commitment there is no enterprise; there is only a mob. The enterprise must have simple, clear, and unifying objectives. The mission of the organization has to be clear enough and big enough to provide common vision. The goals that embody it have to be clear, public, and constantly reaffirmed. Management’s first job is to think through, set, and exemplify those objectives, values, and goals. Management "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

5 " Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels—training and development that never stop. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

6 " Any existing organization, whether a business, a church, a labor union, or a hospital, goes down fast if it does not innovate. Conversely, any new organization, whether a business, a church, a labor union, or a hospital, collapses if it does not manage. Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

7 " Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

8 " right conduct can never be established by procedure. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

9 " Knowledge workers who do not ask themselves, “What can I contribute?” are not only likely to aim too low, they are likely to aim at the wrong things. Above all, they may define their contribution too narrowly. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

10 " To supply data is not enough. The data have to be integrated with strategy, they have to test a company’s assumptions, and they must challenge a company’s current outlook. One "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

11 " Each member of the enterprise contributes something different, but they must all contribute toward a common goal. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

12 " the best definition of “what our business is, will be, and should be,” will remain a pious platitude. Energy will be used up in defending yesterday. No one will have the time, resources, or will to work on exploiting today, let alone to work on making tomorrow. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

13 " Success always makes obsolete the very behavior that achieved it. It always creates new realities. It always creates, above all, its own and different problems. Only the fairy tale ends, “They lived happily ever after. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

14 " Management by drive, like management by ‘bellows and meat ax,’ is a sure sign of confusion. It is an admission of incompetence. It is a sign that management does not know how to plan. But, above all, it is a sign that the company does not know what to expect of its managers – that, not knowing how to direct them, it misdirects them. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

15 " Executives of necessity live and work within an organization. Unless they make conscious efforts to perceive the outside, the inside may blind them to the true reality. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

16 " Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and only these two—basic functions: marketing and innovation. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

17 " Modern management and modern enterprise could not exist without the knowledge base that developed societies have built. But equally, it is management, and management alone, that makes effective all this knowledge and these knowledgeable people. The emergence of management has converted knowledge from social ornament and luxury into the true capital of any economy. Not "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

18 " An essential step in deciding what our business is, what it will be, and what it should be is, therefore, systematic analysis of all existing products, services, processes, markets, end uses, and distribution channels. Are they still viable? And are they likely to remain viable? Do they still give value to the customer? And are they likely to do so tomorrow? Do they still fit the realities of population and markets, of technology and economy? And if not, how can we best abandon them—or at least stop pouring in further resources and efforts? Unless these questions are being asked seriously and systematically, and unless managements are willing to act on the answers to them, the best definition of “what our business is, will be, and should be,” will remain a pious platitude. Energy will be used up in defending yesterday. No one will have the time, resources, or will to work on exploiting today, let alone to work on making tomorrow. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

19 " Even if employed full-time by the organization, fewer and fewer people are “subordinates”—even in fairly low-level jobs. Increasingly they are “knowledge workers.” And knowledge workers are not subordinates; they are “associates.” For, once beyond the apprentice stage, knowledge workers must know more about their job than their boss does—or else they are no good at all. In fact, that they know more about their job than anybody else in the organization is part of the definition of knowledge workers. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker

20 " I soon learned that there is no “effective personality "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Essential Drucker