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Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
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Vienna
Austria
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
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In a rural society communities are given for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant
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The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.
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Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.
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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
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As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
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Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
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Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
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Knowledge applied is productivity.
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More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
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There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.
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The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
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The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
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With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe they are themselves Europe.
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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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There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.
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The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.
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The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
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