Peter Drucker Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  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

• The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

  Peter Drucker

  Strong, Weakness, Tasks

• A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, People, Focus

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.136, Routledge

• We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Trying, Weakness

• An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Mistake, Organization

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

• 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

• A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Boss, Risk

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.139, Routledge

• A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Weakness, Performances, Persons

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.11, Harvard Business Review Press

• Strong people have strong weaknesses.

  Peter Drucker

  Strong, People, Weakness

• Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Weakness, Tasks

  "The New Realities".

• You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

  Peter Drucker

  Weakness, Performances

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.69, Harvard Business Review Press

• Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Attitude, Years

• "The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Decision, Challenges

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