Talk:Peter Drucker

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I removed a section that had nothing to do with Landmarks of Tomorrow. It was about a contemporaneous person of circa 2004.

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  • Management is doing things right, Leadership is doing the right things!
  • Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
  • When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
  • I had sat [in schools] long enough. I would be an adult among other adults--I had never liked being young, and contested the company of delayed adolescents as I thought most college students to be. I would earn a living and be financially independent. [recollections from age 17]
  • Legitimate is a power when it is justified by an ethical or metaphysical principle that has been accepted by a society.
  • The non-profits spend far less for results than governments spend for failure.
  • At least once every five years every form should be put on trial for its life.
  • If only for esthetic reasons, I am not overfond of the term "Bottom-Up Management."
  • [Management is] an integrating discipline of human values and conduct, of social order and intellectual inquiry, [a discipline that] feeds off economics, psychology, mathematics, political theory, history, and philosophy. In short, management is a liberal art...
  • There is only one point on which the economists and I are in agreement: I am NOT an economist.
  • Limiting access to opportunity to those with a diploma is a crass denial of all fundamental beliefs--beliefs, by the way, that have been amply validated by experience. ...[it] restricts, oppresses, and injures individual and society alike.
  • [after attending a John Maynard Keynes seminar, he] suddenly realized that Keynes and all the brilliant economics students in the room were interested in the behavior of commodities while I was interested in the behavior of people.
  • [about Keynesian government spending to relieve economic depressions] It was like a doctor telling you that you have an inoperable liver cancer, but it will be cured if you go to bed with a beautiful seventeen-year-old.
  • I am more an "insultant" than a consultant... I scold people for a fee.
  • The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
  • What is the point of spending such huge sums to bring a 200-lb.-body downtown when all you want of it is its eight-and-a-half pound brain?
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