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Peter F. Drucker
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„The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.“
„What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole. This “seeing” is not a matter of information, training courses, conducted plant tours, or similar devices. What is needed is the actual experience of the whole in and through the individual’s work.“
„It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.“
„Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.“
„When Henry Ford said, “The customer can have a car in any color as long as it’s black,” he was not joking.“
„It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, …The enterprise must demand it of him.“
„A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.“
„Frederick W. Taylor was the first man in recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic observation and study. On Taylor’s ‘scientific management’ rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence in the last seventy-five years which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above any level recorded before, even for the well-to-do. Taylor, though the Isaac Newton (or perhaps the Archimedes) of the science of work, laid only first foundations, however. Not much has been added to them since – even though he has been dead all of sixty years.“
„I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. …I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.“
„And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today’s big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.“
„The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.“
„We do not need more laws. No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model.“
„Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe’s leading and most dynamic financial institution.“
„Engineers speak half–jokingly about Murphy’s Law: ” If anything can go wrong, it will.” But complexity stands under a second law as well. Let me call it Drucker’s law: “If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.”“
„No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.“
„The citizen of today in every developed country is typically an employee. He works for one of the institutions. He looks to them for his livelihood. He looks to them for his opportunities. He looks to them for access to status and function in society, as well as for personal fulfillment and achievement.The citizen of 1900 if employed worked for a small family-type operation; the small pop-and-mom store employing a helper or two; the family household; and so on. And of course, the great majority of people in those days, except in the most highly industrialized countries—such as Britain or Belgium—worked on the farm.Our society has become an employee society. In the early 1900s people asked, “What do you do?”“
„The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.“
„In book subjects a student can only do a student’s work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.“
„Decisions exist only in the present.“
„All economic activity is by definition “high risk.” And defending yesterday–that is, not innovating–is far more risky than making tomorrow.“
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