If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do. Peter Drucker analysisdevelopmentuse An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt. Peter Drucker accomplishmentexcellenceorganization 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 desertimpactsucceed 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 marketingbusinessrunning Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. Peter Drucker egomaniacsthreebelieve 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 appreciateexercisepeople 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-workersrisknumbers Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure. Peter Drucker new-opportunitydoeopportunity No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted. Peter Drucker governmentexpertsadvice One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done. Peter Drucker entrepreneurdonedecision 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 governmentsuccessfulcountry "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 decisionchallengesmen 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 mbateachingyears 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 organizationmilitarypeople 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 taskspersonalitymen 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 energysuccessfulpeople Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. Peter Drucker making-timetime-managementcare 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 eventsbusinessreason 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 kneeshorsegovernment 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 politicalthreeyears
