3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations… They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them ‘operators’ or ‘programmers.’
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker 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.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
