Peter Drucker Strengths Quotes

#1. An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

Peter Drucker

#2. The secret is that effective executives make the strengths of the boss productive.

Peter F. Drucker

#3. Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people
and allow people to place themselves
according to their strengths.

Peter Drucker

#4. There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Rachel Griffiths

#5. Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do.

Peter Drucker

#6. You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Peter Drucker

#7. Rather than do anything to draw his attention to me, I sat back and watched as he gave a row of metal chairs the worst beating of their inanimate lives, thrashing them into tiny pieces and stomping them into the carpeted floor.

Tim Marquitz

#8. The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.

Peter Drucker

#9. Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter F. Drucker

#10. Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter F. Drucker

#11. A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

Peter Drucker

#12. If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

William Winwood Reade

#13. No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Arthur Erickson

#14. Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Peter Drucker

#15. Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

Peter Drucker

#16. 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 F. Drucker

#17. Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Peter Drucker

#18. Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

Peter Drucker

#19. A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Peter Drucker

#20. I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

Carly Chaikin

#21. The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter Drucker

#22. We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Peter Drucker

#23. Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong
these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

Peter Drucker