Peter F. Drucker

Naissance 1909 · Décès 2005

Originaire de Vienna, Austria · Nationalité : United States, Austria · Écrit des essais et documents

Citations

“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 anglais
“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 anglais
“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 anglais
“Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment.”
1960s - 1980sEn anglais
“Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.”
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 88En anglais

Les livres de Peter F. Drucker dans l'ordre de parution, de The End of Economic Man (1939) à Managing Oneself (2017).