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Peter Drucker Inspirational Quotes (341)

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Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
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Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
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Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.
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The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
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The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?
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The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
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Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.
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Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
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Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.
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You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.
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No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.
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The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
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The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
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What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.
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The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
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The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
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If socialism is defined as ownership of the means of production--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.
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That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
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That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.
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Plastic moments are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.
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The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
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There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
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