Quote

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Peter Drucker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
Author
Businessperson
Columnist
Economist
Journalist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Sculptor
University Teacher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Leadership
Accepting
Relationship
Volunteer
Almost
Treat
Fact
Treats
Facts
Motivation
Accept
Anybody

More quotes by Peter Drucker

Image
What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?
Peter Drucker
Image
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
Peter Drucker
Image
Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization.
Peter Drucker
Image
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
Peter Drucker
Image
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
Peter Drucker
Image
In a rural society communities are given for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
Peter Drucker
Image
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
Peter Drucker
Image
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
Image
The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?
Peter Drucker
Image
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker
Image
Objectives are not commands they are commitments.
Peter Drucker
Image
The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
Peter Drucker
Image
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
Peter Drucker
Image
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 should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.
Peter Drucker
Image
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker
Image
An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.
Peter Drucker
Image
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.
Peter Drucker
Image
The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
Peter Drucker
Image
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.
Peter Drucker
Image
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.
Peter Drucker