Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing a….
Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works..
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity o….
When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon..
The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses ….
An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt..
Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no governmen….
The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a bio….
Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even….
We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them..
The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask..
The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers..
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from..
There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a r….
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed ….
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen..
We always remember best the irrelevant..
What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do..
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all ….
Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution..
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work..