21st century Quote by 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 great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the…

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge applied is productivity.

— Peter Drucker

Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He can only be helped. But he must direct himself, and he must direct…

— Matt Perman

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what…

— Peter Drucker

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

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

Knowledge must become capability.

— Carl von Clausewitz

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

— Isabel De Clercq