Peter Drucker Quotes about Knowledge

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Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Innovation, Tasks

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Peter Drucker

Education, Wise, Knowledge

Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.339, Routledge

To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Successful, People

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Tree, Forests

Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.176, Routledge

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

Peter Drucker

Learning, Knowledge, Years

"Peter Drucker, the man who changed the world" by D James, Business Review Weekly (p. 49), September 15, 1997.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker

Work, Learning, Knowledge

Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.40, Routledge

The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Mean, Learning

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

Peter Drucker

Learning, Knowledge, Two

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Peter Drucker

Leadership, Knowledge, Mean

Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.78, Routledge

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge, Hands, People

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

Peter Drucker

Learning, Knowledge, Unique

Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge