The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?' Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for. Peter Drucker tools use jobs Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything." Peter Drucker effectiveness priorities keys Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter Drucker responsibility leadership wise Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. Peter Drucker information-knowledge strength wise What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price. Peter Drucker top-management benefits people Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention. Peter Drucker good-intentions intention decision There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago. Peter Drucker teaching teacher men There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost. Peter Drucker innovation marketing two A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. Peter Drucker irresistible development example Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship. Peter Drucker entrepreneurship planning kissing Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization. Peter Drucker employee important organization All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside. Peter Drucker great-change firm change The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement. Peter Drucker business success people The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter Drucker future-leaders personality leadership Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker productive-life procrastination government Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. Peter Drucker entrepreneur opportunity mean The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. Peter Drucker communication technology business The computer is a moron. Peter Drucker technology intellectual work Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise. Peter Drucker issues social opportunity Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. Peter Drucker teaching teacher retirement
