Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
PETER DRUCKEREffectiveness must be learned.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
-
-
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
PETER DRUCKER -
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER -
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
PETER DRUCKER -
We 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 DRUCKER -
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
PETER DRUCKER -
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
PETER DRUCKER -
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
PETER DRUCKER -
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
PETER DRUCKER -
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
PETER DRUCKER -
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
PETER DRUCKER -
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
PETER DRUCKER -
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
PETER DRUCKER -
What’s measured improves.
PETER DRUCKER -
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
PETER DRUCKER -
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER