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Peter Drucker Quotes - Page 21

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The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of

The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.

Rights, Important Events, America

"Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.

Leadership, Want, Forget

The best plan is only a plan... unless it degerates into work.

Plans

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.

Years, Organization, Minorities

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Learning, Knowledge, Volunteer

The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.

New Ventures, Financial, Feeding

Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.238, Routledge

All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products.

Company, Products

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

Horse, Government, Knees

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.

Art, Giving, Ornaments

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

The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.

Shopping, Community, Vision

Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.111, Routledge

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

Believe, Easy, Very Good

The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Race, Effectiveness, Quality

Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.

Congruence

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

Military, Defense, Purpose

True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"

Reality, Marketing, Doe

Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.

Country, Successful, Government

Peter Drucker (2012). “The New Realities”, p.11, Routledge

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Play, People, Focus

Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the 'the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow' and Robert Heller described him as 'the greatest man in the history of management', praise indeed for a man who described himself as 'just an old journalist'.

Men, Labels, World

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

Strength, Men, Organization

"Management".

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

Numbers, Risk, Knowledge Workers

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2001). “The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker”, Routledge

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Inspiring, Efficiency, Irrelevant

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.155, Routledge

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

Weakness, Performances, Persons

Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.11, Harvard Business Review Press

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

Successful, People, Energy

Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.

War, Fighting, Essence

"The Future of Industrial Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1942.

Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

Spiritual, Men, Order

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

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