the great transformation - 33 top quotes from global peter drucker forum 2014
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The Global Peter Drucker Forum is an international management conference dedicated to the management philosophy of Peter Drucker. Drucker, who lived from 1909 to 2005, was a management professor, writer, and consultant, frequently referred to as a "management guru." The Forum is held annually in November, in Drucker's home town of Vienna, Austria and is put on by the Peter Drucker Society Europe, an affiliate of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. (source: Wikipedia) The 6th Global Peter Drucker Forum was held on November 13-14, 2014 at the Hall of Sciences in Vienna. This is the selection of Top 33 Quotes from Global Peter Drucker Forum 2014. Vladimir Vulic, November 2014TRANSCRIPT
Quotes selected by: Vladimir Vulic @vulicvladimir
“The main challenge for management is how to free up the potential of people.” - Richard Straub
“Peter Drucker's favourite sentence was – ‘Let me be brutally honest...’” – Cecily Drucker
“Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!” - Clayton Christensen
“I don't think it was God who said – ‘Lets measure our success by IRR’. Someone said it, but it was not God.” - Clayton Christensen
“Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.” – Gary Hamel
“Your organization can start tweeting, but that won't change its DNA.” – Gary Hamel
“Organizational structures of today demand too much from a few, and not much at all from everyone else.” – Gary Hamel
“Business schools and businesses of today are not building infrastructure for tomorrow’s management fast enough.” – Roger L. Martin
“Highest rewards in today’s economy go to people who trade value, and not to people who CREATE value.” – Roger L. Martin
“We have structured our world in a way that facilitates the operation of bandits.” – Roger L. Martin
“Innovation is like a natural resource for a company - it has to be mined. That should be the primary responsibility of management.” – Nancy A. Tennant
“There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.” – Martin Wolf
“In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.” – Martin Wolf
“Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.” – Pankaj Ghemawat
“’The system made me do it’ is the perfect cop-out for today’s managers.” – Pankaj Ghemawat
“Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing.” – Dov Seidman
“I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.” – Dov Seidman
“The world no longer looks to the US as the model of democracy, but to China as the model of efficiency.” – Adrian Wooldridge
“The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.” – Andrew Keen
“For a majority of employees going to work every morning feels like going to the dentist.” – Dan Pontefract
“It’s not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It’s already under way.” – Steve Denning
“Exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is great... If you can find it.” – Rita Gunther McGrath
“Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is.” – Rita Gunther McGrath
“’Social’ has nothing to do with technology, but everything to do with humans.” – Nilofer Merchant
“We are only capturing engagement - not whether someone’s full capacity is being brought to bear.” – Nilofer Merchant
“We don't yet see an alternative to the heroic leader.” – Herminia Ibarra
“If you are not trying new ways every single day in your company, you will not get to your optimal point.” – Vineet Nayar
“People are not driven by perks - they want interesting problems.” – Georg Polzer
“We need complexity sciences, not just management and economics.” – Fredmund Malik
“Culture is like a rubber band that wraps around the organization. Without a strong culture, the organization would drift apart.” – Marc Merrill
“We need different structures, different metrics, but above all - we need different leaders, that create context for adults.” – Tammy Erickson
“You don't need to transform... if you don't want to build a great company.” – Tammy Erickson
“Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.” - Clayton Christensen
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