In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written
from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event
historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce.
It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time -
literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices.
For the first time, they will have to manage themselves.
And society is totally unprepared for it.
--Peter F. Drucker
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
--Peter F. Drucker
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
--Peter F. Drucker
You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle.
Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.
--Peter F. Drucker Austrian-American management consultant and educator
Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
--Peter F. Drucker
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
--Peter F. Drucker
You have to learn to treat people as a resource ......
you have to ask not what do they cost, but what is the yield, what can they produce?
--Peter F. Drucker
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult
for people to get their work done.
--Peter F. Drucker
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