Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.
Peter DruckerThe entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter DruckerExecutives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter DruckerThe most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.
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