Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1909 Death: November 11, 2005
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man unde….
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure..
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window..
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform..
Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and rep….
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives..
There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified,….
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irr….
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't ….
It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate..
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 ….
Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, t….
The most critical case in a corporation, especially a big one, is when everything goes well, when you have accomplished your objectives. When the tem….
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..
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 ….
Shoes are real. Money is an end result..
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….
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 ….
If you have more than five goals, you have none..
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….
We always remember best the irrelevant..