Peter Drucker Quotes - Page 23

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• There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the "rich" and on the "fat cats." But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.

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  Wisdom, Cat, Income

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• Our society has become an employee society.

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  Our Society, Employee

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.10, Routledge

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• A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

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  Country, Tasks, Management

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.40, Routledge

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• It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

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  Responsibility, Doe, Demand

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

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• The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

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  Creating, Needs, Revolution

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• Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

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  Change, Believe, Technology

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.4, Routledge

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• The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

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  Important, Knowledge Workers, Needs

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• Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

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  Education, States, Sole

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• Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.

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  Decision, World, Making Decisions

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.66, Routledge

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• If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

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  Knights, Age, Embodiment

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• Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.

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  Management, Evolve

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.217, Routledge

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• The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

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  Definitions, Resources, Enterprise

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.11, Routledge

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• Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

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  Teaching, Years, Mba

  "Peter Drucker" by Peter Starbuck, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

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  Government, Advice, Experts

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• Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

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  Top Management, Challenges, Innovation

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.149, Routledge

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• The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

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  Impact, Desert, Succeed

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• What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

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  Entrepreneur, Innovation, Society

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.313, Routledge

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• Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."

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  Boss, Trying, Able

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

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  Party, Cutting, Men

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.111, Transaction Publishers

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

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  Class, Community, Religion

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

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• Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

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  Responsibility, Government, Lobbyists

  "Management".

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• Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

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  Innovation, Vision, Done

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.

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  Needs, Tools, Made

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.434, Routledge

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• Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

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  Impact, Causes, Dropping

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.269, Routledge

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• [The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.

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  Lying, Miracle, Despair

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.54, Routledge

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