Quote

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on human relations the group is probably too large.

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
Groups
Percent
Spends
Probably
Manager
Human
Relations
Humans
Managers
Time
Relation
Group
Large

More quotes by Peter Drucker

Image
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker
Image
One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
Peter Drucker
Image
Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.
Peter Drucker
Image
What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.
Peter Drucker
Image
One does not start with facts. One starts with opinions.
Peter Drucker
Image
If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.
Peter Drucker
Image
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.
Peter Drucker
Image
Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.
Peter Drucker
Image
There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.
Peter Drucker
Image
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
Peter Drucker
Image
The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers
Peter Drucker
Image
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Image
Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.
Peter Drucker
Image
The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
Peter Drucker
Image
All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.
Peter Drucker
Image
Objectives are not commands they are commitments.
Peter Drucker
Image
Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
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
As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
Peter Drucker
Image
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter Drucker