Peter Drucker Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

When you're a leader and a manager, you have to make decisions which are right for your group to achieve the primary objective. Sometimes those decisions will be criticised.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn't.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

Management must manage!

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Management is different from leadership..

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'