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.
Peter DruckerEffective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.
Peter DruckerLeaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
Peter DruckerIt is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.
Peter DruckerInnovation 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.
Peter Drucker