Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works.
Peter DruckerUnderstanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.
Peter DruckerChange is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.
Peter DruckerInnovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.
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