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If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!
— Peter Drucker
People learn the most when teaching others.
— Peter Drucker
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 takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
— Peter Drucker
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.
— Peter Drucker
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.
— 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
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it
— Peter F. 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
Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.
— 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
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
— 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
One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.
— Peter Drucker
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
— Peter F. 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
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
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
— Peter F. Drucker
The aim of strategic planning is action now.
— 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
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
— Peter Drucker
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
— Peter Drucker
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
— Peter F. Drucker
Knowledge applied is productivity.
— Peter Drucker
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
— Peter Drucker
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
— Peter F. Drucker
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
— Peter F. Drucker
If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" - Peter Drucker
— David Rothwell
The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.
— 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
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
I've seen more institutions damaged by too much caution than by rashness, though I've seen both.
— Peter F. 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
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
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
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 yesterdaythat 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
