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

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

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

Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

Peter Drucker
Team, Responsibility, Effort
Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1985). “Innovation and entrepreneurship: practice and principles”

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.

Peter Drucker
School, Responsibility, Preparation

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.

Peter Drucker
Work, Responsibility, Decision
Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.59, Harvard Business Review Press

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.

Peter Drucker
Responsibility, Fundamentals, Missions
Peter F. Drucker, Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute (2010). “The Five Most Important Questions Self Assessment Tool: Participant Workbook”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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

Peter Drucker
Responsibility, Risk, Firsts
"Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Peter Drucker
Responsibility, Titles, Privilege

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

Peter Drucker
Leadership, Wise, Responsibility

Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.

Peter Drucker
Responsibility, Decision, Accountability
Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.130, Routledge

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

Peter Drucker
Jobs, Responsibility, Top Management
Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

Peter Drucker
Change, Mean, Responsibility

The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

Peter Drucker
Business, Real, Responsibility

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

Peter Drucker
Responsibility, Doe, Demand
"The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.

Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

Peter Drucker
Responsibility, Government, Lobbyists
"Management".

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