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On the need for knowledge workers by Peter F. Drucker |
 
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Quotations from Peter F. Drucker:  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 changePeter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant I have been saying for many years that we are using the word ‘guru’ only because ‘charlatan’ is too long to fit into a headline.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to get things done.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant The best way to predict the future is to create it.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant Increasingly, command and control is being replaced by or intermixed with
all kinds of relationships: alliances, joint ventures, minority
participations, partnerships, know-how, and marketing agreements-all
relationships in which no one controls and no one commands. These
relationships have to be based on a common understanding of objectives,
policies, and strategies; on teamwork; and on persuasion-or they do no work
at all.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labour. It is and will be knowledge.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant In the knowledge society the most probable assumption and certainly the assumption on which all organizations have to conduct their affairs is that they need the knowledge worker far more than the knowledge worker needs them.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He can only be helped. But he must direct himself, and he must direct himself towards performance and contribution, that is, toward effectiveness.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.Peter F. Drucker, (b. 1909) American Management Consultant
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In the knowledge society the most probable assumption and certainly the assumption on which all organizations have to conduct their affairs is that they need the knowledge worker far more than the knowledge worker needs them.
