Peter Drucker Quotes

In the end an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

people are all there is to an organization

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

I'm happy to be with this organization, and I hope to retire as a Yankee.

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

You can get the best out of people if they're happy and not worried or not frightened that they're going to make a mistake.

If you don't have a cohesive team, you won't have good results.

When a culture is broken, the cracks show - morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That's why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.

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.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.