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. | |
— Peter F. Drucker | |
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Posts Tagged ‘Peter F. Drucker’
The Most Pressing Task
Posted in Education, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Change, Learning, Peter F. Drucker, Quotes on December 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
VOTE – We Need A Wave
Posted in History, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #IncompetentDonald, Create The Future, History, Make A Difference, Misfortune, Peter F. Drucker, Philosophy, Politics, Predict The Future, Quotes, Vote Nov 2018, William McFee on October 13, 2018| 5 Comments »
People don’t seem to realize that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune. | |
— William McFee | |
The best way to predict the future is to create it. | |
— Peter Drucker | |
[In 2016, #IncompetentDonald lost the popular vote by over 3 million votes. It wasn’t enough… Make a difference… America needs your vote in November! — KMAB] | |
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2017 | Soothe, Inspire And Recharge |
2016 | Aren’t We? |
2015 | Cold Embrace |
2014 | Delightful |
2013 | Apprenticeship |
2012 | Curtain Rods |
2011 | A Living Force |
2010 | BART Rides – A Tipping Point |
…And With It Civilization
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Knowledge, Learning, Peter F. Drucker, Quotes, Science on February 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. | |
— Peter F. Drucker | |
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2016 | Just Like My Mother |
2015 | All Omissions Are Mine |
2014 | Precise Order |
2013 | Uh, No. Not Really… |
Deep Regions | |
2012 | A Pre-Valentine’s Day Message |
2011 | Easy Like Sunday Morning |
May I Have A Little More, Please… | |
2010 | Valleys and Peaks |
What They Don’t Teach You At School
Posted in Quotes, tagged Management Challenges For The 21st Century, On Business Life Expectancy, On Managing Yourself, Peter F. Drucker, Quotes on April 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »
More and more people in the workforce — and most knowledge workers — will have to MANAGE THEMSELVES. They will have to place themselves where they can make the greatest contribution; they will have to learn to develop themselves. They will have to learn to stay young and mentally alive during a fifty-year working life. They will have to learn how and when to change what they do, how they do it and when they do it. | |
Knowledge workers are likely to outlive their employing organization. … But the average life expectancy of a successful business is only thirty years — and in a period of great turbulence such as the one we are living in, it is unlikely to be even that long. | |
— Peter F. Drucker | |
From his book: “Management Challenges for the 21st Century“ | |
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2014 | Still Trying To Die (5) |
2013 | Honest Doubt |
2012 | Choice |
2011 | Ownership Of Thought |
Efficiently Useless
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Peter F. Drucker, Philosophy, Quotes on December 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. | |
— Peter Drucker | |
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What This Place Needs Is Another Theory
Posted in Quotes, Reading, tagged Peter F. Drucker, Quotes, Reading, Recommended Reading, The Age of Discontinuity on March 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
We need a theory of economic dynamics in addition to the theory of equilibrium, which is all we have now. We need a theoretical understanding of technological innovation as an economic event and its integration into economic theory and economic policy. We need a model of the world economy and the domestic economy. Finally we need a theory of microeconomic behaviour, that is, of the behavior of the actors — the “organisms” — of the economy. For it is the microeconomy, in the end, that produces economic results, goods and services, jobs and incomes. | |
— Peter F. Drucker | |
From his book: “The Age Of Discontinuity“ | |
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Achievement
Posted in General Comments, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Reading, tagged Hope, Peter F. Drucker, Philosophy, Quotes, The Age of Discontinuity on February 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
But there is one thing government cannot provide: the individual’s sense of achievement. | |
Yet this is the essential element of development. What is needed in this world today is not primarily wealth. It is vision. It is the individual’s conviction that there is opportunity, energy, purpose to his society, rather than problems, inertia, and hopelessness. | |
— Peter F. Drucker | |
From his book: “The Age Of Discontinuity“ | |
[It always comes back to HOPE and PRIDE. — KMAB] | |
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Fascinating Discontinuity
Posted in 2010 Book Review, Book Review, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Reviews, Science and Learning, Serendipity and Chaos, tagged 2010 Book Review, Books, Education, Peter F. Drucker, Philosophy, Politics, Recommended Reading, Science, Serendipity and Chaos, The Age of Discontinuity, The Age of Discontinuity - book review on August 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I finished “The Age of Discontinuity” by Peter F. Drucker (1969©). This book took me almost two months to complete because it is so overwhelming. I found I could only read a few dozen pages at most before I had to stop, pause and think about what Drucker was saying. It is almost literally one of Bacon’s few books “to be chewed and digested.” | |
It’s important to remember this work was penned in the late 1960’s!! Yet, it is as fresh and descriptive today as if Drucker is sitting across a table discussing modern history with you (me). | |
The book seeks to review (and examine) four main “discontinuities” in our civilization: new technology, the world’s economy, the “political matrix of social and economic life”, and (most importantly) changes in knowledge (and their effects on teaching, learning, labor, work and politics). | |
Here is a sampling of quotes to illustrate the power of his ideas: (on American pluralism) – …a pluralist society guarantees freedom from domination by any single group. … In fact, the danger in pluralism, as history teaches, is not domination by this or that interest group; it is collapse into indecision and into a stalemate of competing “countervailing powers.” | |
(On knowledge) – This demand, in turn reflects the basic fact that knowledge has become productive. The systematic and purposeful acquisition of information and its systematic application, rather than “science” or “technology,” are emerging as the new foundation for work, productivity, and effort throughout this world. (Sounds like the prediction of the coming of Google!) | |
Knowledge work does not lead to a “disappearance of work.” …Knowledge work, like all productive work, creates its own demand. And the demand is apparently unlimited. |
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(On educational and leadership testing) – No one test can possibly identify today who will be leadership material twenty years later. For we do not and cannot know what will be needed twenty years hence. | |
My copy of this book is the hardbound version and roughly 400 pages. I would estimate I have well over 50 side notes scribbled on the pages and probably a good quarter of the book hi-lighted. This is certainly a work I will return to again – perhaps next time to try to swallow whole, but certainly to nibble away at again and again as its digestion helps me grow. | |
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Why Change?
Posted in General Comments, Quotes, Reading, tagged Peter F. Drucker, Quotes, Reading, Recommended Reading, The Age of Discontinuity on March 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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