Assignments Quote by Peter Drucker

“It’s important for employees to be employed in the roles where they are most productive. No matter how excellent someone is, if they are…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

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

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

— Euripides

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

“Poor performance is rarely because the person is incompetent or a bad person. It’s typically a result of a gap in skill (which is…

— Laszlo Bock

“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

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

— Charles Saatchi

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age,…

— Peter Drucker

“The more skill it takes to accomplish a task, the more difficult it is to comprehend the knowledge needed to deal with it, the…

— Luigina Sgarro

“But the greatest opportunities and boundless accomplishments of the Knowledge Worker Age are reserved for those who master the art of “we.”

— Stephen R. Covey

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

— Matthew Kelly

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

— Peter Drucker