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From Quotes by Peter Drucker
- During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed…
- In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important…
- Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.
- In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
- It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
- Trees die from the topâ€. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve…
- Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.
- The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you…
- I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more…
- Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.
- It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.
- Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and…
- As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written…
- Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship as part of…
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
- A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
- We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those…
- Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view.
- All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.
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