Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business. Peter Drucker functionenterprisesocial The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it. Peter Drucker resourcesenterprisedefinitions The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them. Peter Drucker pertinent-questionseffortmotivational The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community. Peter Drucker eightjobsreality Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity. Peter Drucker innovationlisteningopportunity Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor. Peter Drucker politicalneedsthinking An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction. Peter Drucker innovationcreativityage Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception. Peter Drucker fragilitydangerousperception If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it. Peter Drucker leadershipwantforget Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action. Peter Drucker placementactionideas Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me? Peter Drucker making-a-differencedifferences Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves. Peter Drucker fightingbodytwo Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done. Peter Drucker leaderdonetrying The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again. Peter Drucker shoppingvisioncommunity Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change Peter Drucker charismaundoingleader When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon. Peter Drucker rainheavenpeople Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. Peter Drucker entrepreneurbusinesspast Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION. Peter Drucker customer-experienceexistenceinnovation People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs. Peter Drucker entrepreneurpeopleneeds Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers. Peter Drucker understandingorganizationknowing
