Peter Drucker quotes - page 4

For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication.... Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers. (Peter Drucker)
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
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That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.
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[[Management] has authority only as long as it performs.
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Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.
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The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.
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I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
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The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
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The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.
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We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.
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We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them. (Peter Drucker)
The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
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Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
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No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
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One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U. S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.
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The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.
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Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.
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The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
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The society of ]]organizations\\ is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
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The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.
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Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will... be taken over by a Central government... (Peter Drucker)
"Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business, for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
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There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.
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With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
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