Peter Drucker Quotes

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• The bеѕt wау tо predict уоur future іѕ tо create it.

  Peter Drucker

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• To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Agents, Succeed

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.295, Routledge

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  Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Confusion, Excellence

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  The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Yesterday, Logic

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

  Peter Drucker

  Measurement, Measure For Measure, Can't Change

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• If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Business, Creativity

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

  Peter Drucker

  Order, Today, Tomorrow

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  Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

  Peter Drucker

  Culture, Breakfast, Strategy

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• What gets measured gets managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Clever, Ironic

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• Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

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  Deep Understanding, Excellence, Weakness

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2006). “Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review”, p.3, Harvard Business Press

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• There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

  Peter Drucker

  Wells, Wrong Things

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• The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

  Peter Drucker

  Skills, Important, Century

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• The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

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  Mistake, Decision, Answers

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.304, Routledge

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• Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we're right.

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  Jobs, Differences, Life Is

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• The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

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  Organization, Ordinary, Purpose

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.361, Routledge

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• Focus on opportunities, not problems.

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  Opportunity, Focus, Problem

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.

  Peter Drucker

  Lynching, Choices, Decision

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• Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

  Peter Drucker

  Skills, Discipline, Listening

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• If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

  Peter Drucker

  Priorities, Needs, Done

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• Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Execution, Strategy

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• Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.

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  Two, Innovation, Marketing

  "Management".

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• Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Symptoms, Committees

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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