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Peter Drucker Quotes about Change

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Inspirational, Change, Leadership

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Change, Yesterday, Logic

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Change, Teacher, Educational

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Change, Wise, Future

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

Change, Manage

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.62, Routledge

During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

Motivational, Change, Essence

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Change, Country, Trying

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.295, Routledge

Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

Change, Organization, Community

"Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter Drucker, www.wired.com. 1993.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Change, Firm, Great Change

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Change, Long, Would Be

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.62, Routledge

To arrive at the definition of the problem he must begin by finding the 'critical factor'. This is the element (or elements) in the situation that has to be changed before anything else can be changed, moved, acted upon.

Change, Elements, Problem

"The Practice of Management".

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

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Change, Believe, Technology

Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.4, Routledge

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