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Peter Drucker Quotes - Page 19

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Shoes are real. Money is an end result.

Shoes are real. Money is an end result.

Real, Shoes, Ends

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

Teamwork, Play, People

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.90, Routledge

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.

Years, Two, Entrepreneur

"Innovation and Entrepreneurship".

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

Planning, Project Management, Plans

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

Country, Mean, Socialist Countries

Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Pension Fund Revolution”, p.11, Routledge

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

Thinking, Political, Needs

Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

Thinking, Becoming, Brainstorming

Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.18, Routledge

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

Business, Worry, Meals

"Business Wit & Wisdom". Book by Richard Zera, p. 60, en.wikiquote.org. March 31, 2005.

Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

Fighting, Two, Body

Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order”, p.180, Routledge

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.

Knowing, Organization, Understanding

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

Reality, Looks, Ongoing

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1985). “Innovation and entrepreneurship: practice and principles”

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

Library, Needs, Tools

Peter Drucker (2013). “The Changing World of the Executive”, p.37, Routledge

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.

Expression, Order, Progress

"The End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

Technology, Men, Tools

Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.7, Routledge

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

Communication, Empathy, Understanding

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

Unexpected, Perceive

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.393, Routledge

Decisions exist only in the present.

Decision

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.119, Routledge

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

Change, Mean, Responsibility

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

People

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

The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

Jobs, Book, School

"Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.

Meaningful, Jobs, Opportunity

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

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Keys, Management, Economic

We always remember best the irrelevant.

Remember, Irrelevant

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

Business, Ideas, People

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Resources, Enterprise, Managers

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