Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt. Peter Drucker accomplishment excellence organization The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all. Peter Drucker desert impact succeed A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn't marketing. That goes way beyond marketing. Peter Drucker marketing business running Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. Peter Drucker egomaniacs three believe I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives. Peter Drucker appreciate exercise people To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours. Peter Drucker knowledge-workers risk numbers Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure. Peter Drucker new-opportunity doe opportunity No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted. Peter Drucker government experts advice One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done. Peter Drucker entrepreneur done decision Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful. Peter Drucker government successful country "The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength." Peter Drucker decision challenges men Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management. Peter Drucker mba teaching years The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?" Peter Drucker organization military people An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform. Peter Drucker tasks personality men Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs. Peter Drucker energy successful people Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. Peter Drucker making-time time-management care If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason. Peter Drucker events business reason If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up. Peter Drucker knees horse government The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other. Peter Drucker political three years Shoes are real. Money is an end result. Peter Drucker shoes real ends
