"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer." - Peter Drucker
"Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes." - Peter Drucker
"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money." - Peter Drucker
"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got." - Peter Drucker
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes." - Peter Drucker
"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done." - Peter Drucker
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
"Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm." - Peter Drucker
"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' " - Peter Drucker
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - Peter Drucker
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." - Peter Drucker
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes." - Peter Drucker
"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't." - Peter Drucker
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
"Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank." - Peter Drucker
"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done." - Peter Drucker
"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions." - Peter Drucker
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List of publications
- Friedrich Julius Stahl: konservative Staatslehre und geschichtliche Entwicklung (1932)
- (1939)
- (1942)
- (1945) (A study of General Motors)
- The New Society (1950)
- (1954)
- America's Next 20 Years (1957)
- Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)
- Power and Democracy in America (1961)
- Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-Taking Decisions [] (1964)
- (1966)
- (1968)
- Technology, Management and Society (1970)
- Men, Ideas and Politics (1971)
- (1973)
- The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism Came to America (1976)
- An Introductory View of Management (1977)
- (1979) (Autobiography)
- Song of the Brush: Japanese Painting from the Sanso Collection (1979)
- (1980)
- Toward the Next Economics and Other Essays (1981)
- The Changing World of the Executive (1982)
- The Temptation to Do Good (1984)
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles (1985)
- Harvard Business Review 1985 (PDF Download)
- (1986)
- (1989)
- (1990)
- : The 1990s and Beyond (1992)
- The Post-Capitalist Society (1993)
- The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)
- The Theory of the Business, Harvard Business Review, September-October 1994
- Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)
- Drucker on Asia: A Dialogue Between Peter Drucker and Isao Nakauchi (1997)
- Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management (1998)
- (1999)
- Managing Oneself, Harvard Business Review, March-April 1999
- (2001)
- Leading in a Time of Change: What it Will Take to Lead Tomorrow (2001; with Peter Senge)
- , Revised (2002)
- They're Not Employees, They're People, Harvard Business Review, February 2002
- (2002)
- A Functioning Society (2003)
- (2004)
- What Makes An Effective Executive, Harvard Business Review, June 2004.
- (2005)
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Peter Drucker was an influential business author, strategist, and consultant. His ideas on management, operating large corporations, and leadership have been published in more than thirty books. He was known throughout the business-world as the "father of modern management".
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