A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
PETER DRUCKERA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
PETER DRUCKERIntelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
PETER DRUCKERMeetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
PETER DRUCKERThe computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKEROne cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
PETER DRUCKEREfficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
PETER DRUCKERWhen a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKERPlan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
PETER DRUCKERWorking on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
PETER DRUCKERWe 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.
PETER DRUCKERThere is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKERA person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
PETER DRUCKERThe most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
PETER DRUCKERTo 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 DRUCKERNo one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
PETER DRUCKERLike so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
PETER DRUCKER