„The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say “I.” And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say “I.” They don’t think “I.” They think “we”; they think “team.” They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but “we” gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.“
Peter Drucker

„A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.“
Peter Drucker

„A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.“
Peter Drucker

„We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a person- especially a knowledge worker – should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.“
Peter Drucker

„Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.”
Peter Drucker

„Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.“
Peter Drucker

„The work relationship has to be based on mutual respect. Psychological despotism is basically contemptuous—far more contemptuous than the traditional Theory X. It does not assume that people are lazy and resist work, but it assumes that the manager is healthy while everybody else is sick. It assumes that the manager is strong while everybody else is weak. It assumes that the manager knows while everybody else is ignorant. It assumes that the manager is right, whereas everybody else is stupid. These are the assumptions of foolish arrogance.“
Peter Drucker

„Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.“
Peter Drucker

„An organization is not, like an animal, an end in itself, and successful by the mere act of perpetuating the species. An organization is an organ of society and fulfills itself by the contribution it makes to the outside environment.“
Peter Drucker

„Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.“
Peter Drucker

„People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature—without any more effort than is expended by the nonachievers.“
Peter Drucker