Peter F. Drucker: Management (page 2)

Peter F. Drucker was American business consultant. Explore interesting quotes on management.

Peter F. Drucker: 360 quotes 56 likes

“I would hope that American managers - indeed, managers worldwide - continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals."”

Peter F. Drucker

Management affects people and their lives.
Source: 1990s and later, Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), p. 351

People , Hope , Exercises

“What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole. This "seeing" is not a matter of information, training courses, conducted plant tours, or similar devices. What is needed is the actual experience of the whole in and through the individual's work.”

Peter F. Drucker

1930s- 1950s, The New Society (1950)

Parting , Training

“Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 605

“A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.”

Peter F. Drucker

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), p. 32

Knowledge , Country