Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. Peter Drucker skills numbers jobs The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker future change wise I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself. Peter Drucker teaching people thinking Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Peter Drucker encouraging wise inspirational My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker asking-too-many-questions ignorant-masses asking-questions People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Drucker leadership mistake inspirational Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them. Peter Drucker organisation form people Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. Peter Drucker business opportunity appreciation 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. Peter Drucker essence change motivational You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight. Peter Drucker fighting organization military Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Peter Drucker team-building effectiveness teamwork No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real. Peter Drucker real men thinking The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker loyal-customers business motivational Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything. Peter Drucker hard-times cockroaches elephants Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop. Peter Drucker training development teaching Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'. Peter Drucker achievement vocabulary careers Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all. Peter Drucker issues commitment thinking Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. Peter Drucker practice inspirational art It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate. Peter Drucker jobs giving people Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach . Peter Drucker teaching leadership people
