Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told. Peter Drucker class jobs order When a resource is scarce, you increase its yield. Peter Drucker increase yield motivational To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business. Peter Drucker missions purpose customers Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal. Peter Drucker government opposites past We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths. Peter Drucker weakness trying people Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution. Peter Drucker dropping impact causes We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one. Peter Drucker today order moving Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management. Peter Drucker evolve management Objectives are not commands; they are commitments. Peter Drucker command objectives commitment Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them. Peter Drucker innovators risk successful Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him. Peter Drucker boss risk stupid Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable. Peter Drucker damn miracle sports All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it. Peter Drucker care community common The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world. Peter Drucker important-events rights america Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present. Peter Drucker firm ideas Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is. Peter Drucker size competence achievement Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion. Peter Drucker missions individual passion A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. Peter Drucker risk decision years A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure. Peter Drucker usefulness ends may But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility. Peter Drucker change responsibility mean
