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Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
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Economist
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Vienna
Austria
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
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Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.
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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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Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.
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To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.
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Ideas are cheap and abundant what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.
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Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
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As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.
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Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.
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Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
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The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.
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One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
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Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
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Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
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Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
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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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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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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.
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