Quote

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

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
Firsts
Charge
First
Leadership
Take
Leader
Help
Energy
Jobs
Helping
Orchestrate
Around
Foremost

More quotes by Peter Drucker

Image
There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the rich and on the fat cats. But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.
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
That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
Peter Drucker
Image
People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.
Peter Drucker
Image
Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.
Peter Drucker
Image
Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.
Peter Drucker
Image
Effective people are not problem minded they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
Peter Drucker
Image
Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic it's not mysterious and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.
Peter Drucker
Image
Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.
Peter Drucker
Image
I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.
Peter Drucker
Image
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
Image
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
Peter Drucker
Image
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
Peter Drucker
Image
Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
Peter Drucker
Image
The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength.
Peter Drucker
Image
Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.
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
The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.
Peter Drucker
Image
Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.
Peter Drucker