Peter Drucker Quotes About Productivity

Quotes about: Productivity

• Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

• 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

• The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Business, Work

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in Turbulent Times”, p.15, 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

• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Kick Ass, Manage

• Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge, Innovation, Tasks

• Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.

  Peter Drucker

  Teamwork, Effectiveness, Team Building

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

• There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

• The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Keys, Challenges

• 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 important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

  Peter Drucker

  Learning, Knowledge, Unique

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

• Knowledge applied is productivity.

  Peter Drucker

  Productivity

• The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

  Peter Drucker

  Important, Knowledge Workers, Needs

• Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

  Peter Drucker

  Cancer, Growth, Add

• The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge Workers, Century, Assets

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

• The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

  Peter Drucker

  Taught Us, People, Adoption

• Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowing, Organization, Understanding

• This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.

  Peter Drucker

  Class, Giving, People

  "Managing in a Time of Great Change". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1995.

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