Peter Drucker

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Peter Drucker

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Peter Drucker

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Peter Drucker

Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.

Peter Drucker

All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products.

Peter Drucker

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Peter Drucker

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Peter Drucker

All organizations must be capable of change. We need concepts and measurements that give to other kinds of organizations what the market test and profitability yardstick give to business. Those tests and yardsticks will be quite different.

Peter Drucker

An effective executive builds on strengths – their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

Peter Drucker

An employer has no business with a man’s personality. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Peter Drucker