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Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
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Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
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The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
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Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.
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Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.
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Working with people is difficult, but not impossible.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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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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One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
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Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
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The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
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To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
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There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
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The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.
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Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
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Effective people are not problem minded they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
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The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
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Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
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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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