The most effective way to manage change is to create it. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre. Peter Drucker failure mistake jobs There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable. Peter Drucker manageable complexity All good strategy eventually degenerates into work. Peter Drucker degenerates strategy A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive. Peter Drucker tasks management country Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. Peter Drucker cancer growth add This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people. Peter Drucker class giving people And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much. Peter Drucker horse cities people The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business. Peter Drucker business real responsibility Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across." Peter Drucker propaganda communication want Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement. Peter Drucker decision views doe 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 mean knowledge The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem. Peter Drucker society yesterday work When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities. Peter Drucker growth management busy Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers. Peter Drucker knowledge-workers agents country No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for. Peter Drucker facts The fault is in the system and not in the men. Peter Drucker faults he-man men It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him. Peter Drucker demand responsibility doe The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs. Peter Drucker creating revolution needs The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him. Peter Drucker spiritual men needs Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. Peter Drucker degenerates action happens