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Lessons From Peter Drucker Posts


Integrity can mean a lot of different things to different people, but Drucker simplified it to a single sentence --- it means adhering to a code of ethics and doing the right thing by sticking to that code. He was very clear the personal integri...
Drucker concluded that considerations for workers in and out of the workplace were the responsibility of the corporate leader just as much as the profits, survival, and growth of the business or organization. Therefore, he taught that there were s...
Drucker summarized what he expected from the leader with one of Hippocrates’s concepts: primum non nocere. This means "above all, do no harm." Hippocrates was a Greek physician born in 460 BC. As Peter Drucker is known as...
Drucker was extremely ethical in his outlook and all he did. On a personal level he was one of the most ethical individuals I have ever met. However from both his writing and classroom lectures, it was clear that he struggled mightily to arrive...
Peter Drucker placed an enormous emphasis on determining the real business of an organization. He saw this as a major responsibility of any leader. It was one of the first lessons I learned from Drucker, and I learned this lesson even before I met...
When asked about his ability to predict the future so accurately, something he had said couldn’t be done by anyone, Drucker answered that he simply "looked out the window" and reported what he saw. Of course, he was fond of answering questio...