black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

Peter Drucker

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
PETER DRUCKER

Opportunity Problem Result
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
PETER DRUCKER

Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
PETER DRUCKER

Absence Life People Problem
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
PETER DRUCKER

Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
PETER DRUCKER

Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
PETER DRUCKER

Entrepreneur Risk
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
PETER DRUCKER

Power Privilege Responsibility
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER

Difficult People
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER

Commitment Hope Planning Promise
To 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 DRUCKER

Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
PETER DRUCKER

Alone Person Strength Weakness
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
PETER DRUCKER

Mistake People Risk
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
PETER DRUCKER

Integrity Motivational Planning
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
PETER DRUCKER

Deep Different Leadership Right
Trying 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 DRUCKER

Drive Future Light Night Road
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
PETER DRUCKER

Eyes Job Yourself

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Peter Drucker Quotes