Peter Drucker

Austria
19 Nov 1909 // 11 Nov 2005
Management Consultant / Educator / Author

Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views... The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

The Effective Executive (1967)

Quote Image



Search

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays