Tag: Peter Drucker
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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals’, the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker
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Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter Drucker
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
Peter Drucker
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Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.
Peter Drucker
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If analysis shows that someone’s brilliant work fails again and again as soon as cooperation from others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy – that is, a lack of manners.
Peter Drucker
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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Peter Drucker
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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter Drucker
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker
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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.
Peter Drucker