Peter DruckerUniversities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. ✨ I got my degree through E… ▶371HopeTime
Peter DruckerSociety, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitali… ▶371HumanityReading
Peter DruckerSuccess always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it. ✨ Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices. Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.371Reading
Peter DruckerKnowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour. ✨ Peter Drucker (2012). Post-Capita… ▶371HumanityTruth
Peter DruckerObjectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. With… ▶372Time
Peter DruckerMarketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. ✨ Peter Drucker (2013). People and Performance, p.90, Routledge372Humanity
Peter DruckerI 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 than exercising … ▶372HopeHumanityTime
Peter DruckerIf you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!372Time
Peter DruckerThe new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. ✨ Peter Drucker (2012). Managing in the Next Socie… ▶372Humanity
Peter DruckerThe best way to predict the future is to create it.372HopeTime
Peter DruckerManagement is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ✨ Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.372Humanity
Peter DruckerThe 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 … ▶373Sadness
Peter DruckerThe largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct inves… ▶351Politics
Peter DruckerCapital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.351HopeTime
Peter DruckerThe greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more o… ▶362Time
Peter DruckerAll great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.373Philosophy
Peter DruckerQuality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.341Death
Peter DruckerEntrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the ec… ▶363HumanityReading
Peter DruckerThere is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.352Truth
Peter DruckerA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. ✨ Peter Drucker (2012). Post-Capitalist Society, p.40, Routledge341Humanity
Peter DruckerIn 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 event historians will see is not technology… ▶364HumanityTime
Peter DruckerEverything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.375Sadness
Peter DruckerThe single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer. ✨ Peter Fer… ▶364PhilosophyReading
Peter DruckerFew relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibil… ▶364Politics
Peter DruckerThe real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, y… ▶331Humanity
Peter DruckerThe computer is a moron.375Humor
Peter DruckerPlans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.353Politics
Peter DruckerWe now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.342HumanityLifeTruth
Peter DruckerTo make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. ✨ Peter Drucker (2012). Post-Capitalist Society, p.176, Ro… ▶343Humanity
Peter DruckerWhat gets measured gets managed.343Time