Peter Drucker

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

Peter Drucker

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Peter Drucker

The secret is that effective executives make the strengths of the boss productive.

Peter Drucker

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.

Peter Drucker

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

Peter Drucker

The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.

Peter Drucker

The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

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

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

Peter Drucker

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

Peter Drucker