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Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
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Economist
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Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.
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Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.
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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.
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As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
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To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent
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No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.
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If socialism is defined as ownership of the means of production--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.
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No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.
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True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, What do we want to sell? It asks, What does the customer want to buy?
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There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
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The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
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No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.
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Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.
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Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.
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Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.
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In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.
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Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another.
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The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.
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No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.
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Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.
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