A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions. Peter Drucker askinglisteningideas The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker Peter Drucker knowledge-workersimportantneeds 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. Peter Drucker technologychangebelieve Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done. Peter Drucker cuttingwritingthinking We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model . Peter Drucker sufferinglawcountry Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. Peter Drucker solestateseducation There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves. Peter Drucker hard-workmenbelieve Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese. Peter Drucker making-decisionsdecisionworld The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. Peter Drucker paradoxprophetvision If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource. Peter Drucker embodimentknightsage Time is the scarcest resource. Peter Drucker resourcestime Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success. Peter Drucker look-upobstacleslooks That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist. Peter Drucker capitalistresourcesour-society Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity. Peter Drucker achievementgeniusopportunity ...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence. Peter Drucker maintainingorganizationguarantees Leadership is all about getting results. Peter Drucker results There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be Peter Drucker choicesdoneneeds The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent. Peter Drucker humanspersonsrace To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent Peter Drucker agentssucceedorganization In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker mealsbusinessworry
