Author Profile
Peter Drucker
1909 – 2005 • American • Businessman
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Showing 46 quotesThe most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.— 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.— 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
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.— Peter Drucker
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.— 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.'— Peter Drucker
topics:
Computers
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.— Peter Drucker
topics:
Trust
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.— Peter Drucker
topics:
Education
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.— Peter Drucker
topics:
Change
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.— Peter Drucker
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.— Peter Drucker
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.— Peter Drucker
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.— Peter Drucker
topics:
Strength
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.— Peter Drucker
topics:
Business