Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive..
What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good..
We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model ..
There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job..
Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action..
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications..
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains..
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book..
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform b….
Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself..
It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all..
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationshi….
There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the "rich" and on the "fat cats." But with pension funds owning 30% of Americ….
They wrongly believe that good intentions move mountains. Bulldozers move mountains. But there are exceptions..
Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across.".
The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the ….
Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise..
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution.….
The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything..
The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing bu….