Peter Drucker Quotes

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals.

I think family-run ministries are fabulous, but they have to be placed in proper governance.

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

Organizational changes to fix the problems usually create new vulnerabilities in the process of fixing the old ones.

And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.

Organization cannot make a genius out of a dunce.

The fish rots from the head.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

Delegation of authority is a fact of modern life.

There should not be several departments independent of one another to superintend different parts of the same natural whole.

Structure is not about moving boxes around on a chart. Structure is about power.

Good organization does not necessarily mean it will produce good policy. But bad organization will almost never produce good policy.

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.

Management is different from leadership..

You can call anyyne here or call me. We have no formal chain of command.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

I feel like the business side came more naturally to me along with the product design side, but managing and effectively leading large organizations of people is something that is perpetually challenging and the topic on which I am constantly looking for good advice.

There are no more holes in my management lineup.

When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.

Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.