Peter Drucker Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• 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

• 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

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

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Responsibility

• 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 decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Responsibility, Decision

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.59, Harvard Business Review Press

• 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

• Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Government, Lobbyists

  "Management".

• Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

  Peter Drucker

  Team, Responsibility, Effort

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1985). “Innovation and entrepreneurship: practice and principles”

• The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Real, Responsibility

• The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Risk, Firsts

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Responsibility, Top Management

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

• Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as
  in moral truth and accountability they are.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Decision, Accountability

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.130, Routledge

• It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Doe, Demand

  "The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.

• But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Mean, Responsibility

• A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Fundamentals, Missions

  Peter F. Drucker, Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute (2010). “The Five Most Important Questions Self Assessment Tool: Participant Workbook”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

• Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Titles, Privilege

• The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Responsibility, Preparation

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