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The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
By Peter Drucker
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
By Peter Drucker
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.
By Peter Drucker
People who don't take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.
By Peter Drucker
Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
By Peter Drucker
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
By Peter Drucker
Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
By Peter Drucker
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
By Peter Drucker
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
By Peter Drucker
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
By Peter Drucker
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
By Peter Drucker