Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
PETER DRUCKERIntelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
PETER DRUCKERThe first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
PETER DRUCKERThis defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
PETER DRUCKERManaging yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
PETER DRUCKERBusiness has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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 DRUCKERPeople who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
PETER DRUCKERA man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
PETER DRUCKERFollow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
PETER DRUCKERThere is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKERThe one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
PETER DRUCKERTrying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
PETER DRUCKEREffective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
PETER DRUCKERThe most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
PETER DRUCKERThe aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
PETER DRUCKERThe computer is a moron.
PETER DRUCKER