Business Quote by Peter Drucker

This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the…

— Peter Drucker

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

— Peter Drucker

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

— Peter Drucker

The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the…

— Peter Drucker

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

— Peter Drucker

“Knowledge work as a heavily human task became industrialised in the pursuit of standardisation and efficiency”

— Isabel De Clercq

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...

— Peter Drucker

“In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. ‘What are the expected results from this work?’…

— David Allen

“Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.”

— Susan Cain

“The industrial economy put a premium on the repetitive delivery of process-driven factory work. This is what delivered quality products, consistently. The knowledge economy…

— Gyan Nagpal

Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations:…

— Peter Drucker

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In…

— Peter Drucker