Peter F. Drucker Quotes

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

Work is a process, and any process needs to be controlled. To make work productive, therefore, requires building the appropriate controls into the process of work.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.