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Peter Drucker Quotes - Page 17

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For the social ecologist language is not communication. It is not just message. It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

Communication, Caring, Community

"The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Ideas, Action, Placement

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

One either meets or one works.

"This column will change your life: posteriorities" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

People, Together, Needs

Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.192, Routledge

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Hype, Leader, Three

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Retirement, Jobs, Business

Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.

Achievement, Size, Competence

"Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

Business, Power, Doe

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.272, Routledge

No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.

Government, Evil, Needs

Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.178, Transaction Publishers

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

Mistake, Safe, Phony

"Management".

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

Business, Events, Reason

Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

Believe, Leader, Done

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

Opportunity, Failing, Despite

Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.62, Routledge

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Believe, Three, Egomaniacs

Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.91, Routledge

We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

Moving, Order, Today

"Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

Thinking, People, Knows

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

Integrity, Character, Faults

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Leader, Trying, Done

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

Leader, Undoing, Charisma

Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.101, Routledge

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

Germany, Welfare, Entitlement

Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.269, Routledge

The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

Running, Greatness, Finals

Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.

Animal, Men, Survival

"Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

Book, Promise, Students

Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.144, Transaction Publishers

Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as in moral truth and accountability they are.

Responsibility, Decision, Accountability

Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.130, Routledge

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