Peter Drucker
Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.Collection: Strength
Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.Collection: Jobs
If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development.Collection: Development
Leadership is all about getting results.Collection: Results
Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.Collection: Smart
It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.Collection: Jobs
People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.Collection: People
No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.Collection: Facts
A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.Collection: Example
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.Collection: Military
The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.Collection: Mean
Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.Collection: Skills
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.Collection: Economy
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.Collection: Responsibility
The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.Collection: Success
A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.Collection: Names
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.Collection: Individuality
There are no creeds in mathematics.Collection: Science
Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.Collection: Responsibility
Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.Collection: Kissing
The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.Collection: Years
The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.Collection: Running
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.Collection: Art
The most effective way to manage change is to create it.Collection: Inspirational
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?"Collection: Military
Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.Collection: Smart
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.Collection: Evil
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.Collection: Leadership
Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.Collection: Teaching
Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.Collection: Leadership
Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.Collection: People
The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.Collection: Essence
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.Collection: Appreciation
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of lossCollection: Business
There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.Collection: Two
Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinatesCollection: Character
To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.Collection: Work
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.Collection: Teamwork
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.Collection: Learning
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.Collection: Funny
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.Collection: Business
For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.Collection: Technology
Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.Collection: Art
We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.Collection: Years
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.Collection: Inspirational
No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.Collection: People
Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.Collection: Leadership
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?'Collection: Successful
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.Collection: Country