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1909–2005 Austria

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19 1909 – November 11 2005) was an Austrian-born American writer, management consultant and university professor. In 1943 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

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Also known as: Drucker, Peter, Drucker, Peter F., Peter F. Drucker, Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation.

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

MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)

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)

In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.

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)

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

The Practice of Management (1954)

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)

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

Innovations and Entrepreneurship (1985)

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)

- A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

The Practice of Management (1954)

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)

If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.

Concept of the Corporation (1945)

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)

Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"

Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)

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