Peter Drucker Tasks Quotations

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

An employer has no business with a man's personality. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

The task of management is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant

Decision making is the specific executive task.