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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There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .
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Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.
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Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
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For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.
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Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.
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The computer is a moron.
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The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
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Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.
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In 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, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.
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There is only one ethics, one set of rules of morality, one code: That of individual behavior in which the same rules apply to everyone alike.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
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First and last, Drucker is a moralist of our business civilization.
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Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.