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Peter Drucker Quotes about Leadership

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

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

Inspirational, Change, Leadership

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Leadership, Wise, Funny Inspirational

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Leadership, Average, Needs

Peter F. Drucker (2009). “Concept of the Corporation”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Leadership, Responsibility, Ranking

Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.102, Routledge

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Leadership, Jobs, Energy

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Inspirational, Leadership, Strong

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

Leadership, Jobs, Maturity

Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.270, Routledge

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Leadership, Opportunity, Thinking

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Leadership, Organization, Doe

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Leadership, Teaching, People

"Managing for the Future".

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Leadership, Leader, Made

People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked but didn't; the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Leadership, Should Have, Organization

"Post-Capitalist Society".

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Motivational, Leadership, Business

Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Leadership, Wise, Responsibility

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Leadership, Knowledge, Mean

Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.78, Routledge

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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.

Leadership, Jobs, Focus

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.

Leadership, Want, Forget

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Relationship, Leadership, Motivation

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