Peter Drucker quotes - page 5

That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer--even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety--is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act. (Peter Drucker)
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
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A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
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It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.
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An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.
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The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.
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Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.
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Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.
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Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
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A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
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A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future. (Peter Drucker)
It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
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Decisions exist only in the present.
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The fault is in the system and not in the men.
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One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.
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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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The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
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When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
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It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
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Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
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The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it. (Peter Drucker)
The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
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To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
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A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.
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One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
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