The most effective way to manage change is to create it. 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 asking listening ideas 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-workers important needs 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 technology change believe 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 cutting writing thinking We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model . Peter Drucker suffering law country Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. Peter Drucker sole states education 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-work men believe Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese. Peter Drucker making-decisions decision world The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. Peter Drucker paradox prophet vision 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 embodiment knights age Time is the scarcest resource. Peter Drucker resources time Look upon every obstacle as part payment towards your success. Peter Drucker look-up obstacles looks That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist. Peter Drucker capitalist resources our-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 achievement genius opportunity ...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence. Peter Drucker maintaining organization guarantees Leadership is all about getting results. Peter Drucker results There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be Peter Drucker choices done needs The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent. Peter Drucker humans persons race To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent Peter Drucker agents succeed organization 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 meals business worry
