Sublime

Peter Drucker says one of the critical problems in the workplace today is that there is a lack of understanding between the employer and employee as to what the employee is to do.

accept the fact that other people are as much individuals as you yourself are. They perversely insist on behaving like human beings. This means that they too have their strengths; they too have their ways of getting things done; they too have their values. To be effective, therefore, you have to know the strengths, the performance modes, and the va

“We accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” —Peter Drucker

Wherever knowledge workers perform well in large organizations, senior executives take time out, on a regular schedule, to sit down with them, sometimes all the way down to green juniors, and ask: “What should we at the head of this organization know about your work? What do you want to tell me regarding this organization? Where do you see opportun

Drucker’s 1954 The Practice of Management declaration that “there is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer”

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” - Peter Drucker

Shifting the mix of a manager’s activities from those with lower to those with higher leverage.

Such a man (or woman) must make decisions; he cannot just carry out orders.

The least we should be able to do is run a small business that works. For if we can’t do that, then what’s the value of our grand ideas?