Peter F. Drucker on Management

ABOUT THIS POST: On my podcast, I recently discussed Peter F. Drucker’s best quotes on leadership. This was Preceded by an episode about Drucker’s best quotes on leadership, a third episode on his humorous quotes and fourth on his profound quotes.

I created this post so that anyone listening to the podcast can grab the quotes here. Conversely, you can listen or watch the podcast here:

Listen: https://leadersmith.podbean.com/e/notable-quotables-peter-f-drucker-on-management-episode-157/

Watch: https://youtu.be/xTcp0L94RcE

Enjoy!

MANAGEMENT QUOTES

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

“Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

“The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.”

“Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.”

“Managers are action-focused; they are not philosophers and should not be.”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

“Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.”

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”

“If you have more than five goals, you have none.”

“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

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

“Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.”

“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”

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Dr. Darin Gerdes is a tenured  Professor of Management in the College of  Business at Charleston Southern University He is also the host of the Leadersmith Podcast and a Co-founder of the Excellence in Leadership Institute. 

All ideas expressed on www.daringerdes.com are his own.

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