Peter Drucker Management Quotations

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.

Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

Management has authority only as long as it performs.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

What's measured improves

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.