Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform. Peter Drucker strengthorganizationmen The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job. Peter Drucker maturityleadershipjobs Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. Peter Drucker hypethreeleader When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking. Peter Drucker carcolorlong To arrive at the definition of the problem he must begin by finding the 'critical factor'. This is the element (or elements) in the situation that has to be changed before anything else can be changed, moved, acted upon. Peter Drucker elementsproblemchange No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate. Peter Drucker individualsocialgiving If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total Peter Drucker suicidewarlong Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength. Peter Drucker strengthpeoplethinking Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society. Peter Drucker spiritualmenorder The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data. Peter Drucker moroncomputerdata The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. Peter Drucker minoritiesorganizationyears If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country. Peter Drucker socialist-countriesmeancountry That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens Peter Drucker safetygovernmenthands In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration. Peter Drucker cuttingpartymen Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do." Peter Drucker bossabletrying The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything. Peter Drucker togetherpeopleneeds What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do. Peter Drucker managersimportant Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk. Peter Drucker riskaccomplishmentimportant Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution. Peter Drucker institutionsmanagement Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable. Peter Drucker project-managementplanningplans
