Peter F. Drucker

Nació 1909 · Murió 2005

De Vienna, Austria · Nacionalidad: United States, Austria · Escribe no ficción

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“The Nazi agitator whom, many years ago, I heard proclaim to a wildly cheering peasants’ meeting: ‘We don’t want lower bread prices, we don’t want higher bread prices, we don’t want unchanged bread prices—we want National-Socialist bread prices,’ came nearer explaining fascism than anybody I have heard since.”
The End of Economic Man, pp. 13-14En inglés
“The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”
The Practice of Management, p. 147En inglés
“Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.”
1960s - 1980sEn inglés
“Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment.”
1960s - 1980sEn inglés
“Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.”
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 88En inglés

Los libros de Peter F. Drucker en el orden en que se publicaron, de The End of Economic Man (1939) a Managing Oneself (2017).