The most effective way to manage change is to create it. Peter Drucker More Quotes by Peter Drucker More Quotes From Peter Drucker One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time. Peter Drucker Decision making is the specific executive task. Peter Drucker decision-making tasks decision Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths. Peter Drucker organization jobs people Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so. Peter Drucker obsolete management waiting If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Peter Drucker live-life too-much space Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! Peter Drucker modern chance men Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. Peter Drucker morning book school Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things. Peter Drucker irrelevant efficiency inspiring The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. Peter Drucker innovation growth age We always remember best the irrelevant. Peter Drucker irrelevant remember In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts. Peter Drucker volunteer learning knowledge Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential. Peter Drucker prosperity growth luck Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow. Peter Drucker tomorrow yesterday The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers Peter Drucker achiever Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence. Peter Drucker top-management innovation challenges People alone of all the resources can grow and develop. Peter Drucker resources grows people If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done! Peter Drucker priorities done needs Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders. Peter Drucker economic workers jobs A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society. Peter Drucker economy generations lifetime Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do. Peter Drucker analysis development use