Peter Drucker Quotes About Efficiency

Quotes about: Efficiency

• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Procrastination, Productive Life, Government

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.156, Routledge

• Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

  Peter Drucker

  Life, Wise, Time

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2001). “The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker”, Routledge

• Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

  Peter Drucker

  Teamwork, Effectiveness, Team Building

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.44, Routledge

• What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Confusion, Done

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

• Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Efficiency, Irrelevant

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.155, Routledge

• The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Effectiveness, Together

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.187, Routledge

• The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Race, Effectiveness, Quality

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