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People learn the most when teaching others. — Peter Drucker

What gets measured gets managed. - PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author — Timothy Ferriss

The most important thing about priorities and posteriorities is not intelligent analysis but courage. — Peter F. Drucker

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. — Peter F. Drucker

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works. — Peter Drucker

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast. — Peter Drucker

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon. — Peter Drucker

The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed. — Peter Drucker

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed. — Peter Drucker

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. — Peter Drucker

Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view. — Peter Drucker

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege. — Peter Drucker

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor. — Peter Drucker

Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion. — Peter Drucker

The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees — Peter Drucker

There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost. — Peter Drucker

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal. — Peter Drucker

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions. — Peter Drucker

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company. — Peter Drucker

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze. — Peter Drucker

Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you. — Peter Drucker

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

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it. — Peter F. Drucker

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. — Peter Drucker

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation ... — Peter Drucker

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs. — Peter Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. — Peter F. Drucker

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. — Peter F. Drucker

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant. — Peter F. Drucker

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. — Peter Drucker

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. — Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter F. Drucker

In the Next Society's corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced. — Peter F. Drucker

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people. — Peter Drucker

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate. — Peter Drucker

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. — Peter Drucker

2. Don't diversify, don't splinter, don't try to do too many things at once. This is, of course, the corollary to the 'do': be focused! — Peter F. Drucker

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?" — Peter Drucker

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant. — Peter Drucker

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt. — Peter Drucker

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right. — Peter Drucker

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception. — Peter Drucker

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity — Peter Drucker

The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires. — Peter Drucker

Business is society's change agent. — Peter Drucker

If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" - Peter Drucker — David Rothwell

But there seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge. — Peter F. Drucker

The true business of every company is to make and keep customers. — Peter Drucker

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. — Peter Drucker

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old — Peter F. Drucker

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

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic. — Peter Drucker

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it. — Peter Drucker

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective. — Peter Drucker

a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler's throw, — Peter F. Drucker

The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it's selling. — Peter Drucker

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable. — Peter Drucker

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom. — Peter Drucker

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline. — Peter Drucker

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. — Peter Drucker

Management has authority only as long as it performs. — Peter Drucker

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it. — Peter Drucker

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission. — Peter Drucker

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. — Peter Drucker

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter. — Peter Drucker

We always remember best the irrelevant. — Peter Drucker

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. — Peter Drucker

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong. — Peter Drucker

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. — Peter F. Drucker

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management. — Peter Drucker

You can't manage what you don't measure. — Peter Drucker

Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice. — Peter Drucker

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well. — Peter Drucker

What's measured improves — Peter F. Drucker

The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed. — Peter Drucker

I've seen more institutions damaged by too much caution than by rashness, though I've seen both. — Peter F. Drucker

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business. — Peter Drucker

There are no creeds in mathematics. — Peter Drucker

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. — Peter F. Drucker

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. — Peter F. Drucker

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework. — Peter Drucker

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. — Peter F. Drucker

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business. — Peter Drucker

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time. — Peter Drucker

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. — Peter F. Drucker

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility. — Peter Drucker

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. — Peter Drucker

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions . — Peter Drucker

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all. — Peter Drucker

Shoes are real. Money is an end result. — Peter Drucker

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers. — Peter Drucker

All good strategy eventually degenerates into work. — Peter Drucker

One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done. — Peter Drucker

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday
that is, not innovating
is far more risky than making tomorrow. — Peter Drucker

Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention. — Peter Drucker

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. — Peter Drucker

If you have more than five goals, you have none. — Peter Drucker

Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization. — Peter Drucker