Peter Drucker Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about: Leadership

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

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• 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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  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

• Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

• 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

• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

• No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Strong

• Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Responsibility

• Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Jobs, Energy

• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Funny Inspirational

• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Organization, Doe

• The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Responsibility, Ranking

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.102, Routledge

• No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Average, Needs

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

• Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Teaching, People

  "Managing for the Future".

• Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Opportunity, Thinking

• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

• People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked but didn't; the things that once were productive and no longer are.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Should Have, Organization

  "Post-Capitalist Society".

• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

• Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Knowledge, Mean

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.78, Routledge

• Leaders grow; they are not made.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Leader, Made

• The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Jobs, Focus

• Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

  Peter Drucker

  Relationship, Leadership, Motivation

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