Peter Drucker Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.

  Peter Drucker

  Two, People, Giving

• Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

  Peter Drucker

  Cities, Organization, Community

  "Civilizing the City". Leader to Leader, No. 7, 1998.

• 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

  Communication, Caring, Community

  "The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

• Society, 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-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Organization, Community

  "Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter Drucker, www.wired.com. 1993.

• In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

  Peter Drucker

  Class, Community, Religion

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.156, Routledge

• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Reality, Eight

  "The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.

• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Shopping, Community, Vision

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.111, Routledge

• All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Community, Care, Common

  "The New Pluralism". Leader to Leader, No. 14, 1999.

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