Peter Drucker - Change Quotes

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

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Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

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To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

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It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

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It's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

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Knowledge is information that changes something
or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an
individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

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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.

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Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

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If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

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Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

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Every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change.

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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.

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Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

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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.

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We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad,... We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself—indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

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Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care? And for the middle-class family, college education for their children is as much of a necessity as is medical care—without it the kids have no future. Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.

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An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"—he owes performance and nothing else..... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

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Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

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If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

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