Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first c….
There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every ca….
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should b….
Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework..
Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities….
Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results.
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, "If we assign thi….
The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive..
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the pro….
Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution..
Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management..
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception..
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager..
In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolut….
Shoes are real. Money is an end result..
The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This abilit….
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance..
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentra….
A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the ….
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast..
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make….