To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results. Peter Drucker successful opportunity jobs Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution. Peter Drucker top-management europe years Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them. Peter Drucker achieve motivation goal The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. Peter Drucker inward cost focus Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. Peter Drucker envy hatred evil The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago. Peter Drucker eight law years If you want to predict the future create it. Peter Drucker ifs want The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER. Peter Drucker learning unique knowledge I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in. Peter Drucker growth country thinking There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the "rich" and on the "fat cats." But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds. Peter Drucker income cat wisdom Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government Peter Drucker government principles taken Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral. Peter Drucker issues moral groups Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change. Peter Drucker community organization change Our society has become an employee society. Peter Drucker employee our-society For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit. Peter Drucker new-technology benefits technology Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise. Peter Drucker managers resources enterprise One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions. Peter Drucker opinion doe facts I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas. Peter Drucker people ideas The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa. Peter Drucker business work mean Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday. Peter Drucker evaluation energy yesterday
