Peter Drucker
Useless efficiency
“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
Management - leadership
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
Efficiency - effectiveness
“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
purpose of business
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
rank imposes responsibility
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
results from opportunities
“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
Plans
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
wrong questions
“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
management
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
― Peter Drucker (1909-2005)
obsolete subject
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
computer is a moron
“The computer is a moron. ”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
absence of doing
“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 F. Drucker (1909-2005)
new - stop old
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
meetings sympthom fewer better
“Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
knowledge obsolete ignorance
“Knowledge constantly makes itself obsolete, with the result that todays’ advanced knowledge is tomorrow’s ignorance”.
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
knowledge primary industry
“Knowledge has already become the ‘primary’ industry, the industry that supplies to the economy the essential and central resource of production”.
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
quality customer money value
“Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
knowledge improve challenge increase vanish
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
organization value unacceptable frustrating nonperformance
“To work in an organization whose value system is unacceptable or incompatible with one’s own condemns a person both to frustration and to nonperformance.”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
energy improve incompetence mediocrity first-rate excellence
“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 F. Drucker (1909-2005)
strategy plan future decision
"Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions."
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
thirty 30 years university relics survive book
"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."
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)
turbulence danger act yesterday logic
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence — it is to act with yesterday’s logic”
― Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005)