Peter Drucker Change Quotations

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

Business is society's change agent.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.