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Peter Ferdinand Drucker. (1909 - 2005). Austrian-born American management consultant, and educator.

Management Decision Power

“In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.”
  • Source: Drucker, P. F. (1942). The Future of Industrial Man. Page 64. DOI: 10.4324/9781315132143.
Keywords: Modern_quotes Corporation_quotes Decision_quotes Power_quotes Derive_quotes Management_quotes Control_quotes Responsibility_quotes Literal_quotes Sense_quotes Unfounded_quotes Unjustified_quotes Uncontrolled_quotes Irresponsible_quotes

Functioning Society or Tyranny

“We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.”
  • Source: Drucker, P. F. (1942). The Future of Industrial Man. Page 96. DOI: 10.4324/9781315132143.
Keywords" Alternative_quotes Build_quotes Function_quotes Industry_quotes Society_quotes Anarchy_quotes Tyranny_quotes Freedom_quotes

Productivity and Efficiency

“The major incentive to productivity and efficiency are social and moral rather than financial.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, The New Society (1950).
Keywords: Major_quotes Incentive_quotes Productivity_quotes Efficiency_quotes Society_quotes Moral_quotes Finance_quotes

Free Enterprise

“Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York, Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 41.
Keywords: Free_quotes Enterprise_quotes Justification_quotes Good_quotes Business_quotes Society_quotes

Intuitive Management

“The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 93.
Keywords: Day_quotes Intuition_quotes Manager_quotes Number_quotes

Weaknesses and Strengths

"A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths."
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 157.
Keywords: Man_quotes Humanity_quotes People_quotes Appoint_quotes Manager_quotes Position_quotes Vision_quotes Human_quotes Weakness_quotes Strength_quotes

Mistakes

“The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 147.
Keywords: Better_quotes Man_quotes Humanity_quotes Mistake_quotes Make_quotes Try_quotes Promotion_quotes Top_quotes Level_quotes Job_quotes Big_quotes Mediocrity_quotes

Ordering Others About

“It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 284.
Keywords: Follow_quotes Separation_quotes Plan_quotes Do_quotes Analysis_quotes Work_quotes Differences_quotes Human_quotes People_quotes Industry_quotes World_quotes Divide_quotes Class_quotes Few_quotes Decision_quotes Design_quotes Set_quotes Pace_quotes Rhythm_quotes Motion_quotes Order_quotes Told_quotes

What a Manager Does

“A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 344.
Keywords: Do_quotes Manager_quotes Set_quotes Organization_quotes Motivation_quotes Communication_quotes Establish_quotes Yardstick_quotes Measurement_quotes Development_quotes People_quotes

Change as Order

“We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ... We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 22.
Keywords: Long_quotes Understanding_quotes Question_quotes Change_quotes Good_quotes Bad_quotes Start_quotes Axiom_quotes Norms_quotes Alteration_quotes Order_quotes Being_quotes Comprehend_quotes Dynamic_quotes Move_quotes

Implementing and Doing

“The moment people talk of 'implementing' instead of 'doing,' and of 'finalizing' instead of 'finishing,' the organization is already running a fever."”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 94.
Keywords: Moment_quotes People_quotes Talking_quotes Implementation_quotes Do_quotes Final_quotes Finishing_quotes Organization_quotes Run_quotes Fever_quotes

Education

“Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 121.
Keywords: Tomorrow_quotes Everybody_quotes Practical_quotes Education_quotes Upper_quotes Class_quotes Yesterday_quotes Equal_quotes Opportunity_quotes Face_quotes Problem_quotes Make_quotes Kind_quotes Job_quotes Meaning_quotes Capability_quotes Satisfaction_quotes Man_quotes Human_quotes

Arts

“The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 144.
Keywords: Art_quotes Alone_quotes Give_quotes Direct_quotes Experience_quotes Elimination_quotes Education_quotes Worse_quotes Tolerance_quotes Culture_quotes Ornament_quotes Obscure_quotes Foist_quotes Pedantism_quotes Snob_quotes Hellenistic_quotes Greece_quotes Performance_quotes Fit_quotes Slavery_quotes

Learning is Promise

“In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 144.
Keywords: Book_quotes Subject_quotes Student_quotes Work_quotes Measurement_quotes Learning_quotes Performance_quotes Show_quotes Promise_quotes

Drucker's Law

“Engineers speak half–jokingly about Murphy's Law: 'If anything can go wrong, it will.' But complexity stands under a second law as well. Let me call it Drucker's law: 'If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.'”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 681.
Keywords: Engineering_quotes Speak_quotes Half_quotes Joke_quotes Murphy_quotes Law_quotes Anything_quotes Wrong_quotes Will_quotes Complexity_quotes Stand_quotes Second_quotes Call_quotes Drucker_quotes One_quotes Everything_quotes Same_quotes Time_quotes Murphy(topic)_quotes

Systems Management

“Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 761.
Keywords: Organization_quotes Requirements_quotes Evolution_quotes System_quotes Management_quotes

Bitch Goddess

"Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the 'bitch goddess success.' A philosopher of business today might well talk of the 'bitch goddess growth.'"
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 780.
Keywords: Growth_quotes Goal_quotes Repetition_quotes Delusion_quotes America_quotes Philosophy_quotes Talking_quotes Bitch_quotes Goddess_quotes Philosopher_quotes Business_quotes Today_quotes Might_quotes

Big Government

“No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 178.
Keywords: Matter_quotes Deep_quotes Wed_quotes Free_quotes Enterprise_quotes System_quotes Life_quotes Acceptance_quotes Need_quotes Positive_quotes Government_quotes Consider_quotes Size_quotes Scale_quotes Desire_quotes Necessary_quotes Evil_quotes Action_quotes

Surviving Government

“Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 258.
Keywords: Systematic_quotes Terror_quotes Indoctrinate_quotes Manipulate_quotes Stimulate_quotes Reward_quotes Punish_quotes Today_quotes Break_quotes Man_quotes Conversion_quotes Brute_quotes Animal_quotes First_quotes Step_quotes Survival_quotes Make_quotes Government_quotes Legitimate_quotes Attempt_quotes Deprive_quotes Power_quotes International_quotes Action_quotes Ban_quotes

Learn to Lead People

"We will have to learn to lead people rather than to contain them."
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 30.
Keywords: Learning_quotes Lead_quotes People_quotes Contain_quotes Management_quotes

Future Different

“The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 44.
Keywords: Knowledge_quotes Future_quotes Go_quotes Differences_quotes Change_quotes Prediction_quotes

Profit a Result not a Cause

“Profit is not a cause but a result.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 71.
Keywords: Profit_quotes Causality_quotes Result_quotes

Success Obsoletes Achievement

“Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 88.
Keywords: Feedback_quotes Success_quotes Obsolete_quotes Behavior_quotes Achievement_quotes

Business Purpose Mission and Objectives

“The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 99.
Keywords: Basic_quotes Definition_quotes Business_quotes Purpose_quotes Mission_quotes Translation_quotes Objectives_quotes

Need to Get Together

“The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 548.
Keywords: Rule_quotes Minimum_quotes Need_quotes People_quotes Together_quotes Accomplish_quotes

Success Outliving Usefulness

“A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 159.
Keywords: Success_quotes Outlive_quotes Usefulness_quotes End_quotes Damage_quotes Failure_quotes

A Better Tool

“A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 224.
Keywords: Tool_quotes Necessary_quotes Better_quotes Big_quotes Best_quotes Do_quotes Job_quotes Requirements_quotes Minimum_quotes Complexity_quotes Power_quotes Effort_quotes

Layoffs

“...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.”
  • Source: A cantankerous interview with Peter Drucker, Wired (August 1996).
Keywords: Absolute_quotes Unforgivable_quotes Finance_quotes Benefit_quotes Top_quotes Management_quotes People_quotes Layoff_quotes Excuse_quotes Justification_quotes Morality_quotes Society_quotes Pay_quotes Heavy_quotes Price_quotes

Big University Relics

“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care? And for the middle-class family, college education for their children is as much of a necessity as is medical care — without it the kids have no future. Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “Seeing Things as They Really Are”, Forbes (March 10, 1997)
Keywords:Year_quotes Big_quotes University_quotes Education_quotes Relic_quotes Survival_quotes Large_quotes Change_quotes First_quotes Printing_quotes Book_quotes Cost_quotes High_quotes Rise_quotes Fast_quotes Health_quotes Care_quotes Middle_quotes Class_quotes Family_quotes College_quotes Children_quotes Necessary_quotes Medicine_quotes Future_quotes Total_quotes Control_quotes Expense_quotes Visibility_quotes Improve_quotes Content_quotes Quality_quotes System_quotes Rapid_quotes Become_quotes Untenable_quotes Uncontrollable_quotes Deep_quotes Crisis_quotes Campus_quotes

Distance Learning

“Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.”
Keywords: University_quotes Survival_quotes Future_quotes Outside_quotes Tradition_quotes Campus_quotes Classroom_quotes Distance_quotes Learning_quotes Fast_quotes Education_quotes

Subordinate Job

“The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond” (1992). p. 138.
Keywords: Subordinate_quotes Job_quotes Reform_quotes Reeducate_quotes Education_quotes Boss_quotes Conformity_quotes Business_quotes School_quotes Management_quotes Book_quotes Like_quotes Enable_quotes Particular_quotes Performance_quotes Uniqueness_quotes Individual_quotes

Knowledge Workers

“The newly emerging dominant group is 'knowledge workers.' The very term was unknown forty years ago. (I coined it in a 1959 book, Landmarks of Tomorrow.) By the end of this century knowledge workers will make up a third or more of the work force in the United States-- as large a proportion as manufacturing workers ever made up, except in wartime. The majority of them will be paid at least as well as, or better than, manufacturing workers ever were. And the new jobs offer much greater opportunities.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Age of Social Transformation”, The Atlantic Monthly; Nov. 1994; Vol. 274, No. 5. p. 53-80.
Keywords: Emergence_quotes Domination_quotes Group_quotes Knowledge_quotes Worker_quotes Term_quotes Unknown_quotes Year_quotes Coin_quotes Book_quotes Tomorrow_quotes End_quotes Century_quotes Work_quotes Force_quotes United_States_quotes Large_quotes Proportion_quotes Manufacture_quotes Wartime_quotes Majority_quotes Pay_quotes Better_quotes Job_quotes Great_quotes Opportunity_quotes
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