Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Druckerwas an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management"...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth19 November 1909
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employees farmers knowledge labor neither nor workers
Knowledge workers are neither farmers nor labor nor business; they are employees of organizations.
knowledge hands people
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 to do with it.
knowledge-workers assets institutions
The 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 its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
learning knowledge unique
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 MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.
knowledge learning volunteer
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
learning knowledge years
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
important needs knowledge-workers
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
country agents knowledge-workers
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.
knowledge learning two
You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
strength wise information-knowledge
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
education wise knowledge
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
knowledge tree forests
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
work knowledge learning
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
learning knowledge mean
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.