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The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done QUOTES

1 " In the Next Society’s corporation, top management will be the company. Everything else can be outsourced. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

2 " I consider myself a “social ecologist,” concerned with man’s man-made environment the way the natural ecologist studies the biological environment.....the discipline itself boasts an old and distinguished lineage. Its greatest document is Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. But no one is as close to me in temperament, concepts, and approach as the mid-Victorian Englishman Walter Bagehot. Living (as I have) in an age of great social change, Bagehot first saw the emergence of new institutions: civil service and cabinet government, as cores of a functioning democracy, and banking as the center of a functioning economy. A hundred years after Bagehot, I was first to identify management as the new social institution of the emerging society of organizations and, a little later, to spot the emergence of knowledge as the new central resource, and knowledge workers as the new ruling class of a society that is not only “postindustrial” but postsocialist and, increasingly, post-capitalist. As it had been for Bagehot, for me too the tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation and change was central to society and civilization. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

3 " As a rule, theory does not precede practice. Its role is to structure and codify already proven practice. Its role is to convert the isolated and “atypical” from exception to “rule” and “system,” and therefore into something that can be learned and taught and, above all, into something that can be generally applied. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

4 " Follow these five decision steps when hiring someone: Understand the job, consider three to five people, study candidates performance records to find their strengths, talk to the candidates’ colleagues about them, and once hired, explain the assignment to the new employee. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

5 " But the most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important challenge in society, economics, politics, is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities. The important thing is to identify the “future that has already happened”—and to develop a methodology for perceiving and analyzing these changes. A "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

6 " All organizations must be capable of change. We need concepts and measurements that give to other kinds of organizations what the market test and profitability yardstick give to business. Those tests and yardsticks will be quite different. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

7 " If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

8 " Abandon what is about to be obsolete, develop a system to exploit your successes, and develop a systematic approach to innovation. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

9 " Management and the Liberal Arts Management is a liberal art. Management is what tradition used to call a liberal art—“liberal” because it deals with the fundamentals of knowledge, self-knowledge, wisdom, and leadership; “art” because it deals with practice and application. Managers draw upon all of the knowledges and insights of the humanities and social sciences—on psychology and philosophy, on economics and history, on the physical sciences and ethics. But they have to focus this knowledge on effectiveness and results—on healing a sick patient, teaching a student, building a bridge, designing and selling a “user-friendly” software program.   ACTION POINT: What is your plan to develop yourself in the humanities and social sciences? Develop such a plan today. The New Realities "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done