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Quotes from MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices — Peter Drucker

1909–2005 Austria

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There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Management has authority only as long as it performs.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

"Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

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

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the "bitch goddess success." A philosopher of business today might well talk of the "bitch goddess growth."

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Decisions exist only in the present.

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Drucker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.