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Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19 1909 – November 11 2005) was an Austrian-born American writer, management consultant and university professor. In 1943 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He taught at New York University and Claremont Graduate University respectively.
- 1 Quotes
- 1.1 1930s- 1950s
- 1.2 1960s - 1980s
- 1.3 1990s and later
- 2 Quotes about Peter Drucker
- 3 External links
1930s- 1950s[edit]
- If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.
- Concept of the Corporation (1945)
- Note: compare Dwight Eisenhower's January, 1961 Farewell Speech
The End of Economic Man (1939)[edit]
Peter Drucker, The End of Economic Man (1939)
- This is a political book... It has a political purpose: to strengthen the will to maintain freedom against the threat of its abandonment in favor of totalitarianism.
- Foreword, p. xxxv
- Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
- p. 24
- Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior...
- p. 37
- There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.
- p. 39
- With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
- p. 50
- [The masses] … must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.
- p. 84
The Future of Industrial Man (1942)[edit]
Peter Drucker, The Future of Industrial Man (1942)
- No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
- p. 28
- In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.
- p. 64
- Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will... be taken over by a Central government...
- p. 96
- We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
- p. 96
- Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society--its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.
- p. 107-108
- Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions--as in moral truth and accountability they are.
- p. 115
The New Society (1950)[edit]
Peter Drucker, The New Society (1950)
- For if this country... were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.
- Note: compare Dwight Eisenhower's January, 1961 Farewell Speech
- That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer--even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety--is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.
- We still think and talk of the basic problems of an industrial society as problems that can be solved by changing the system, that is the superstructure of political organization. Yet the real problems lie within the [industrial] enterprise. ...our representative institution... a mirror in which we look when we want to see ourselves.
- The major incentive to productivity and efficiency are social and moral rather than financial.
- What the worker needs is to see the plant as if he were a manager. Only thus can he see his part, from his part he can reach the whole. This "seeing" is not a matter of information, training courses, conducted plant tours, or similar devices. What is needed is the actual experience of the whole in and through the individual's work.
The Practice of Management (1954)[edit]
Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012
- Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
- p. 41
- The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
- p. 93, cited in Henry Mintzberg (2005) Managers Not MBAs (2005). p. 10
- A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
- p. 157
- The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.
- p. 147
- It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.
- p. 284
- It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.
- p. 304
- The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.
- p. 327
- - A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.
- p. 344
- The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
- p. 387
- Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
- p. 392
Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)[edit]
Peter F. Drucker, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World, New York: Harper & Row, 1959.
- We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself--indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
- p. 22
- An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.
- p. 93-94
- The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.
- p. 94
- The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.
- p. 126
- In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"… On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.
- p. 111
- [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure."
- p. 115
- Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.
- p. 121
- The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...
- p. 144
- In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
- p. 144
- No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.
- p. 178
- Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
- p. 249
- Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.
- p. 258
1960s - 1980s[edit]
- Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.
- The Effective Executive (1966)
- Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
- The Age of Discontinuity (1969)
- The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.
- The Age of Discontinuity (1969)
- If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.
- The Pension Fund Revolution (1976)
- Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
- Adventures of a Bystander (1979) (Autobiography)
- Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations; most computer users have found that they now need more, and more expensive clerks, even though they call them "operators" or "programmers.
- Drucker cited in: William White (1981) Library journal. Volume 106, Nr 1-12. p. 1048
- All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.
- Innovations and Entrepreneurship (1985)
- Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"
- The Frontiers of Management (1986)
MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)[edit]
Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
- The citizen of today in every developed country is typically an employee. He works for one of the institutions. He looks to them for his livelihood. He looks to them for his opportunities. He looks to them for access to status and function in society, as well as for personal fulfillment and achievement.
- The citizen of 1900 if employed worked for a small family-type operation; the small pop-and-mom store employing a helper or two; the family household; and so on. And of course, the great majority of people in those days, except in the most highly industrialized countries—such as Britain or Belgium—worked on the farm.
- Our society has become an employee society. In the early 1900s people asked, "What do you do?" Today they tend to ask, "Whom do you work for?"
- p. 4
- Without institution there is no management. But without management there is no institution.
- p. 5
- We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.
- p. 30
- A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.
- p. 32
Part 1[edit]
- A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.
- p. 43
- The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.
- p. 44
- The prevailing economic theory of business enterprise and behavior, the maximization of profit—which is simply a complicated way of phrasing the old saw of buying cheap and selling dear—may adequately explain how Richard Sears operated. But it cannot explain how Sears, Roebuck or any other business enterprise operates, nor how it should operate. The concept of profit maximization is, in fact, meaningless.
- p. 59 (1986 ; 45)
- Profit is not a cause but a result-
- p. 71
- Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.
- p. 88
- The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
- p. 99
- It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
- p. 119
- Decisions exist only in the present.
- p. 125
- The fault is in the system and not in the men.
- p. 140
- Note: see W Edwards Deming "Blame the process, not the people."
- A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.
- p. 159
- One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.
- p. 169
- Frederick W. Taylor was the first man in recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic observation and study. On Taylor's 'scientific management' rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence in the last seventy-five years which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above any level recorded before, even for the well-to-do. Taylor, though the Isaac Newton (or perhaps the Archimedes) of the science of work, laid only first foundations, however. Not much has been added to them since – even though he has been dead all of sixty years.
- p. 181
- As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.
- p. 182
- "Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.
- p. 185
- The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.
- p. 199
- When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.
- p. 209
- A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.
- p. 224
- An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes"--he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
- p. 229
- The society of ]]organizations\\ is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
- p. 284
- [[Management] has authority only as long as it performs.
- p. 301
- It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
- p. 303
- And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.
- p. 317
- Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.
- p. 333
- The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
- p. 343
Part 2[edit]
- The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.
- p. 380
- To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.
- p. 398
- A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.
- p. 427
- The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
- p. 455
- Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.
- p. 465
- One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
- p. 475
- Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."
- p. 487
- The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
- p. 513
- The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.
- p. 525
- One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.
- p. 539
- The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.
- p. 548
Part 3[edit]
- Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and 1880, when he designed and built the Deutsche Bank and made it, within a very few years, into continental Europe's leading and most dynamic financial institution.
- p. 605
- There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.
- p. 640
- "Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.
- p. 647
- Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is.
- p. 672
- Engineers speak half–jokingly about Murphy's Law: " If anything can go wrong, it will." But complexity stands under a second law as well. Let me call it Drucker's law: "If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time."
- p. 681
- There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
- p. 681
- Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.
- p. 707
- The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.
- p. 739
- Organizationally what is required - and evolving - is systems management.
- p. 761
- Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the "bitch goddess success." A philosopher of business today might well talk of the "bitch goddess growth."
- p. 780
- There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology, society, economy, and institutions.
- p. 803 (last page)
1990s and later[edit]
- One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work. That is why there is an enormous surge in the number of unpaid staff, volunteers. The needs are not going to go away. Business is not going to take up the slack, and government cannot.
- "New Priorities" Dancing Toward The Future, Context Institute, (1992)
- Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.
- The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition (1993)
- For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.
- The Ecological Vision (1993)
- That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations -- not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
- The Shape of Things to Come: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker Leader to Leader, No. 1 (Summer 1996)
- ...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
- A cantankerous interview with Peter Drucker, Wired (August 1996)
- Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care? And for the middle-class family, college education for their children is as much of a necessity as is medical care—without it the kids have no future. Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.
- Seeing things as they really are, Forbes (March 10, 1997)
- Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
- I got my degree through E-mail, Forbes (June 16, 1997)
- ...human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.
- Civilizing the City, Leader to Leader, No. 7 (Winter 1998)
- ...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.
- The New Pluralism Leader to Leader, No. 14 (Fall 1999)
- Knowing Yourself ...We also seldom know what gifts we are not endowed with. We will have to learn where we belong, what we have to learn to get the full benefit from our strengths, where our weaknesses lie, what our values are. We also have to know ourselves temperamentally: "Do I work well with people, or am I a loner? What am I committed to? And what is my contribution?"
- Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself Leader to Leader, No. 16 (Spring 2000)
- ...the information revolution. Almost everybody is sure ...that it is proceeding with unprecedented speed; and ...that its effects will be more radical than anything that has gone before. Wrong, and wrong again. Both in its speed and its impact, the information revolution uncannily resembles its two predecessors ...The first industrial revolution, triggered by James Watt's improved steam engine in the mid-1770s...did not produce many social and economic changes until the invention of the railroad in 1829 ...Similarly, the invention of the computer in the mid-1940s, ...it was not until 40 years later, with the spread of the Internet in the 1990s, that the information revolution began to bring about big economic and social changes. ...the same emergence of the "super-rich" of their day, characterized both the first and the second industrial revolutions. ...These parallels are close and striking enough to make it almost certain that, as in the earlier industrial revolutions, the main effects of the information revolution on the next society still lie ahead.
- "The way ahead" Economist.com (November 2001)
- This new knowledge economy will rely heavily on knowledge workers. ...the most striking growth will be in "knowledge technologists:" computer technicians, software designers, analysts in clinical labs, manufacturing technologists, paralegals. ...They are not, as a rule, much better paid than traditional skilled workers, but they see themselves as "professionals." Just as unskilled manual workers in manufacturing were the dominant social and political force in the 20th century, knowledge technologists are likely to become the dominant social—-and perhaps also political—-force over the next decades.
- "The next society" Economist.com (November 2001)
Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)[edit]
Peter Drucker, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992)
- Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"
- p. 137
- The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.
- p. 138
- A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates
- p. 139
- Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."
- p. 139
- Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.
- p. 140
Post-Capitalist Society (1993)[edit]
Peter Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society (1993)
- The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century.
We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.
- p. 3
- That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.
- p. 45
"The Age of Social Transformation." 1994[edit]
Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation." The Atlantic Monthly; Nov. 1994; Vol. 274, No. 5. p. 53-80.
- In the 1950s, industrial workers had become the largest single group in every developed country, and unionized industrial workers in mass-production industry (which was then dominant everywhere) had attained upper-middle-class income levels. They had extensive job security, pensions, long paid vacations, and comprehensive unemployment insurance or "lifetime employment." Above all, they had achieved political power... Thirty-five years later, in 1990, industrial workers and their unions were in retreat. They had become marginal in numbers. Whereas industrial workers who make or move things had accounted for two fifths of the American work force in the 1950s, they accounted for less than one fifth in the early 1990s--that is, for no more than they had accounted for in 1900, when their meteoric rise began... By the year 2000 or 2010, in every developed free-market country, industrial workers will account for no more than an eighth of the work force. Union power has been declining just as fast... By the year 2000 or 2010, in every developed free-market country, industrial workers will account for no more than an eighth of the work force. Union power has been declining just as fast.
- About the rise and fall of the blue-collar worker
- The newly emerging dominant group is "knowledge workers." The very term was unknown forty years ago. (I coined it in a 1959 book, Landmarks of Tomorrow.) By the end of this century knowledge workers will make up a third or more of the work force in the United States--as large a proportion as manufacturing workers ever made up, except in wartime. The majority of them will be paid at least as well as, or better than, manufacturing workers ever were. And the new jobs offer much greater opportunities.
- About the rise of the knowledge worker
- Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.
- About how government can function
Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)[edit]
Peter Drucker, Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)
- This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.
- p. 205
- I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.
- p. 295
- I would hope that American managers - indeed, managers worldwide - continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.
- p. 351
Quotes about Peter Drucker[edit]
- The publication of Peter F. Drucker's The Practice of Management in 1954 was a turning point in the development of the discipline of management.
- Shaker A. Zahra (2003), "The Practice of Management: Reflections on Peter F. Drucker's Landmark Book." The Academy of Management Executive (1993-2005), Vol. 17, No. 3 (Aug., 2003), p. 16
- Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the 'the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow' and Robert Heller described him as 'the greatest man in the history of management', praise indeed for a man who described himself as 'just an old journalist'.
- Robert Heller and Alistair Schofield (2006) "Peter J Drucker (1909~2005)" on extensor.co.uk


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Megan Fox returned to the red carpet in Los Angeles on Friday (07Dec12) for the first time since giving birth to baby boy Noah in September (12).
The Transformers beauty was joined by her husband Brian Austin Green as she posed for photos in a fitted white lace dress at the March of Dimes Celebration of Babies luncheon, where another new mom, Reese Witherspoon, was honored by the parenting charity.
The Legally Blonde star - who also welcomed a son, named Tennessee, in September (12) - was the guest of honor at the event and was presented with the March of Dimes organisation's Grace Kelly Award by Elizabeth Banks in recognition of her status as a parental role model.
Accepting the award, mom-of-three Reese Witherspoon recalled a story about a pregnant pal who called her as she went into labour to find out what to expect from the birthing experience.
The Oscar winner told the star-studded crowd, "She wanted to know how she was going to feel in that moment and what it would be like when you meet your baby for the very first time. And I was talking to Jim, my husband, and I said, 'Can you imagine describing that moment of pure joy that happens when your child is in your arms for the very first time?' I mean, what are the words?!
"We are parents that know the joy of having a beautiful, brilliant, joyful, perfect baby. That somehow heaven has opened up and delivered us an angel (who) looks adorable in every angle of an iPhone photo. And, in my case, looks gorgeous printed on a bag or a pillow or an iPhone cover - anything you can get on TinyPrints (printing website)!"
Model/actress Molly Sims and Hilary Duff and her husband, retired hockey player Mike Comrie, also attended the charity event.
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"In the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand the word raisin is reserved for the dried large dark grape, with sultana being a dried large white grape, and currant being a dried small Black Corinth grape"
You learn something new each day don't you - glorious Wikipedia!! So why am I going off on a random one about sultanas and raisins? It's because today I am reviewing some liqueur flavoured sultanas from Hotel Chocolat.
Hotel Chocolat are between seasons at the moment, so my contacts there offered me the chance to fill the seasonal void with some more samples from their 'little things' standard range. These Rum Sultanas and Amaretto Sultanas both came in 150.0g cardboard tubs that must have contained approximatelly 20-30 pieces in each. This style of packaging hasn't ever been a favourite of mine when it comes to Hotel Chocolat (See Ginger Tangs review). Not only do I not think it looks as aesthetically premium as some of their other offerings (their slabs etc), but also if you plan on eating the contents across anything more than a few days the cardboard material doesn't do many wonders for retaining freshness. Minor packaging gripes aside, the raisins and sultanas looked more appealing, and both radiated strong boozie chocolatey scents when I first opened them up. Below are my brief thoughts on each.
Hotel Chocolat Amaretto Sultanas - These came described as 'sultanas soaked in Amaretto, covered in milk chocolate and almonds'. Out of the two dried fruit products on offer today these were the larger in size, with some pieces being twice as large as the rum alternatives. My experiences with Hotel Chocolat liqueur flavoured chocolates have been a little mixed over the past few months, and I'm afraid to say that these were a little unbalanced when it came to how strongly the amaretto came over in the taste. The milk chocolate, plump juicy sultanas and small bits of almond did initially create a myriad of fruit, nut and chocolate flavour influences, however these were masked by the introduction of the amaretto which didn't take long in dominating the other constituents. The overall effect of the amaretto was detrimental to the taste for my liking, but then again I'm not great fan of the liqueur itself.
Hotel Chocolat Rum Sultanas - These came billed as 'sultanas soaked in Jamaican rum covered in milk chocolate'. As I have mentioned above these were noticeably smaller in size, which I found a little puzzling given that the only major difference between the two products were that these didn't have the small bits of almond nut in their coating. Suffice to say I didn't let this perturb me and I'm glad to say I was a little more receptive of these rum flavoured ones. Similarly to the above, the exterior milk chocolate and inner fruit fast established a sugary sweet taste that was well compounded by the fresh feeling sensation that the sultanas created when bitten in to. Like the amaretto, the rum was similarly forthcoming in the taste, however the sweet fruity hints that were present amongst it's boozie flavours complimented the other constituents better than the more startling alcoholic hit of the other spirit. Out of the two I found that these were the ones I was keener on and I finished the tub long before the amarettos.
Overall neither of these would ever be classified in a list of my all time favourite Hotel Chocolat products, but I have to hand it to them for taking a pretty dull product concept of chocolate coated dried fruit and making it somewhat interesting. The added 'interest' was admittedly just a large dose of alcohol for both products, which landed with mixed success. Lets face it though, this made the propositions far more exciting than they would have been had they just been plain. Out of the two my preference lay with the rum sultanas, though when I sampled them on my parents they said they were too sweet and gobbled the rest of the amaretto in super fast time. All-in-all they may not be the most exciting things that Hotel Chocolat have to offer but I wouldn't discount them from your thoughts entirely. If boozie flavoured chocolates are your sort of thing then these are certainly going to be worth you taking a look at if you also like chocolate covered fruits.
Hotel Chocolat Amaretto Sultanas - 7.5 out of 10
Hotel Chocolat Rum Sultanas - 8.0 out of 10


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Arctic Surface Radiation Budget, Clouds, and Sea Ice Extent
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The Arctic sea ice waxes and wanes in accordance with the annual cycle of the solar radiation. The sea ice partly melts in the summer when days are long, and then grows back during the winter when sunlight is low or absent. One of the most important characteristics of sea ice is the high albedo, causing sea ice to reflect more incoming solar radiation back to the atmosphere than the darker ocean water. Because of the large difference in albedo between sea ice and open water, any small changes in the Arctic surface albedo would affect strongly the surface energy budget and thus, the sea ice extent. This icealbedo feedback is regarded as a dominant mechanism for the continuing sea ice loss in the Arctic. On the other hand, the Arctic is one of the cloudiest regions on the earth. Radiative properties of clouds are somewhat similar to ice, because both have high visible albedo and high longwave emissivity. Clouds affect the surface radiation budget via two ways: they reflect incoming solar radiation and reduce the downwelling shortwave radiation at the surface (i.e., a cooling effect), and they trap heat emitted by the earth and re-emit some of that energy back to the surface, leading to an increase of the downwelling longwave (i.e., a warming effect). This cloud-radiation feedback, although it has been suggested to play an important role in polar amplification of the Arctic climate change, remains as one of the least understood processes.
The new and continuing satellite radiation programs (ISCCP, GEWEX-SRB, and NASA's CERES) developed in past years have led to rich archives of the surface radiative fluxes with high temporal and spatial resolution for multiple years (1983-present). Preliminary study based on these satellite archives suggested that albedo, surface temperature, and clouds have intertwined in a complex manner in affecting the Arctic Ocean surface radiative fluxes, and that the seemingly dominant sea icealbedo feedback mechanism may have been enhanced by the cloud-radiation feedback process.
The aim of this proposed study is to utilize the satellite-based radiation archives to gain a better understanding of the sea ice-albedo feedback, cloud-radiation feedback, and their coupled interactions, with particular focus on the effects of the two feedback processes on the surface radiation budget over the Arctic Ocean. The proposed study is built upon the ongoing Objectively Analyzed air-sea Fluxes (OAFlux) project which the PI has been leading. It is expected that results from the proposed study would not only expand the OAFlux project to the polar oceans but also likely open the doors for new funding opportunities targeted for high-latitude climate change. Since the surface radiative fluxes are a key driver for changes in sea ice and Arctic Ocean heat budget, the expertise developed here could ultimately benefit WHOI Arctic research programs.


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The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore's main measure for air pollution, surged to a record reading of 371, breaching the "hazardous" classification that can aggravate respiratory ailments. The previous all-time high before this week was in 1997, when the index reached 226.
The hazardous reading lasted three hours before easing to 253 in the evening, still "very unhealthy."
Smog fueled by raging Indonesian blazes has hit Singapore and Malaysia many times, often in the middle of the year, but the severity of this week's conditions has strained diplomatic ties. Officials in Singapore say Jakarta must do more to halt fires on Sumatra island started by plantation owners and farmers to clear land cheaply.
"This is now the worst haze that Singapore has ever faced," Singapore's Environment Minister Vivian Balakrishnan wrote on his Facebook page. "No country or corporation has the right to pollute the air at the expense of Singaporeans' health and wellbeing."
The haze has shrouded the city-state's skyscrapers in a pall of noxious fumes and posed numerous inconveniences for Singaporeans, some of whom complained of coughs and covered their faces with handkerchiefs while walking outdoors.
Flight controllers at Singapore's Changi Airport were instructed to take precautions because of lower visibility, while McDonald's said it was temporarily halting delivery service to protect its workers' health.
Some hospitals shut windows in wards with elderly patients to keep out the acrid odor of burning. Sports organizers canceled several football and sailing competitions this weekend.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong advised residents to stay indoors as far as possible, adding that "we will get through this together."
Lee told a news conference Thursday that the haze was expected to persist for an unknown number of days because of wind and weather conditions. He announced that a government panel was being formed to protect public health and the city-state's economic resilience.
In neighboring Malaysia, air quality remained relatively unaffected in the country's biggest city, Kuala Lumpur, but a southern state that borders Singapore also recorded "hazardous" pollution in one district, where 200 schools were ordered shut through at least Friday. The Department of Environment banned open burning and made it punishable by up to five years in prison in three states separated from Sumatra by the Malacca Strait.
Indonesian officials have defended their response to the haze, saying the government is educating farmers about alternatives to traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. Some Indonesian officials have also suggested that some fires might be blamed on Singaporean and Malaysian companies involved in Indonesia's plantation industry.
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Scholarships that target students interested in engineering provide an excellent way to help pay for the rising costs of higher education. Since engineering scholarships are plentiful and come from a variety of sources, such as corporations, non-profits, foundations, institutions, and governmental bodies, future engineers have a host of opportunities available to them.
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Uttapam is a popular South Indian dish. Traditionally uttapam is made with rice and lentil batter, which can be a long process. Bread Uttapam, on the other hand, is instant and easy to make. Not to mention it tastes delicious. Uttapam is a thick dosa, or pancake, with vegetables cooked over skillet. It tastes divine served hot and with a side of coconut chutney.
Recipe will serve 3
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 6 minutes
- 3 slices of white bread
- 3 tablespoons sooji coarse (semolina)
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, (maida, plain flour)
- 1/4 cup yogurt, (curd, dahai)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
- Approx. 1/4 cup bell pepper finely chopped
- Approx. 1/4 cup tomatoes finely chopped, remove the seeds
- I green chili finely chopped, adjust to taste
- 2 teaspoons ginger finely shredded
- Approx. 2 tablespoon cilantro finely chopped
- Approx. 1-1/2 tablespoon oil
- Remove the crest from bread and cut them in small pieces.
- In a blender add bread, sooji, all-purpose flour, salt, yogurt and water, blend to a thick and smooth paste.
- Take out the batter in a bowl and add the remaining ingredients, cumin seeds, bell pepper, tomatoes, ginger, green chili, and cilantro, mix it well. Batter should be thick in consistency add more water if needed, batter should not be too thick but should not be runny.
- Heat the skillet over medium heat and lightly grease the skillet.
- Pour about 2 tablespoons of batter and spread consistency should be of thick pancake.
- Pour little oil around uttapam. Let it cook for about 2 minutes and turn them over, bread uttapam should be golden brown from both sides and this should take about four minutes. Notes: do not cook on high heat, uttapam will not cook through.
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|Evidence Dash
Ray Machowski, on a public toilet, asking Claude to steal photographic evidence showing media mogul Donald Love at one of his morgue parties.
|Ray Machowski
|Burn photos of Donald Love
|Belleville Park, Staunton Island, Liberty City
|Throw a photo in the ocean
Gone Fishing
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- You may be looking for the mission of the same name from GTA Chinatown Wars.
Evidence Dash is a mission in Grand Theft Auto III, given by corrupt police officer Ray Machowski to protagonist Claude from the toilet block in Belleville Park, Staunton Island, Liberty City.
Ray informs Claude about knowing a rich man in the city, namely Donald Love, and somebody has pictures of him at a "morgue party", eating corpses. Ray orders Claude to get the evidence and torch the car that the pictures are in.
Claude gets in a vehicle and drives to the evidence which is in a fireproof and explosion proof Bobcat, which is driving around Staunton Island. He then rams the Bobcat from behind and collects six images. Claude then destroys the car he used for collecting the evidence.
(Claude and Ray Machowski in the toilet block.)
Ray Machowski: I know a real important man in town, a soft touch, with shall we say, exotic tastes and the money to indulge them. He's involved in legal matter and the prosecution has some rather embarrassing photos of him at a morgue party or something. The evidence is being driven across town. You are going to have to ram that car and collect each little bit of evidence as it falls out. When you've got it all, leave it in the car and torch it. We're both gonna do pretty well outta this kid.
The reward for this mission $10,000. The missions Gone Fishing and Liberator are unlocked.
- The Bobcat that the Prosecution is driving is bullet-, fire-, and explosion-proof. The player can keep it if he or she manages to push it into a garage. That is made a lot easier if the player uses a heavy vehicle to turn it upside down. It won't explode, but the game will announce it as a decoy and the driver will get out.
Claude listening as Ray Machowski gives him his instructions.
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Brazilian Newspapers Apparently Don't Want Traffic; They All Opt Out Of Google News
from the how-much-do-they-spend-on-seo? dept
Google, as it does, has pointed out that it sends these newspapers a ton of traffic, which you would think they'd appreciate. A Google representative pointed out how ridiculous the newspapers' stance was:
it would be absurd for a restaurant to tax a cab driver for taking tourists to eat there.In the meantime, if I were one of the 10% of newspapers smart enough not to opt-out, I'd be going all out to try to steal that traffic from the big newspapers.
The newspapers defended their decision by arguing that Google News is "not helping us grow our digital audiences." Instead, they claim that "by providing the first few lines of our stories to Internet users, the service reduces the chances that they will look at the entire story in our web sites." I'm wondering how they determine this, because I can't see how that would possibly be true. Google notes that it sends four billion clicks to news sites each month. The newspaper guys seem to assume that without Google News people will just go straight to their newspaper sites, which is a huge assumption. It also assumes that the people looking at Google News aren't clicking through on news articles. Those both seem like very big assumptions that are likely to be entirely incorrect.


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The Witcher is an RPG about the adventures of Geralt, a professional monster slayer, and was developed by Warsaw, Poland-based CD Projekt RED. The game is based on a new version of the BioWare Aurora Engine, titled Aurora 2007. The story is set in a world created in the books of Andrzej Sapkowski and sold all over the world.
The Witcher Enhanced Edition not only means changes in the game's mechanics or better graphics, however. There's also an included mod editor called D'jinni that allows players to create or modify their own adventures in the world of The Witcher, as well as two completely new adventures created by CD Projekt RED. The first adventure, entitled "The Price of Neutrality," tells the story of Geralt coming back to Kaer Morhen and finding a mysterious camp near the stronghold (3 new quests), while the second one focuses on Geralts close friend, Dandelion, and his troubles in Vizima City (5 quests).
CD Projekt RED decided to edit some language versions to meet the highest standards. Work continues on the English version, in which a significant amount of dialogue is being re-recorded and over 5000 lines of the script were rewritten, as well as the German version, in which the translation is being improved and many characters are receiving new voice-overs.
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition will be free of the majority of criticisms noted by fans and media in the original version of the game. The enhancements cover two major areas: removing technical issues (loading times will be reduced by 80%, stability of the game on various operating systems will be improved, and numerous improvements will be made to enhance fighting precision) and the aforementioned changes in language versions. Additionally, the product will ship to retail in a value-packed bundle that includes all language versions on a single master disc, the Djinni Adventure Editor and two official adventures, the official soundtrack, an album of music inspired by The Witcher, a game guide, a map of The Witchers world and more. All of the enhancements will be available as a free download to existing game owners.
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vivalasvegans wrote:Do you know of any good out of the way hikes close by? I wish your PMs were turned on. We need to talk
"Out of the way" and "close by" are not mutually inclusive in Oregon. If you want serenity, I'm afraid you'll have to drive for it. My PM is turned back on. I had it off for a few months; was getting too much attention from some groupies in here.
I know Forest Park, Sauvie Island, the Gorge on the Washington side, Mt. Hood, and the entire coast from southern Washington down to Newport, Oregon, really well. I've done hot spots south of here like Silver Falls, Smith Rock, etc. but I'd like to do a lot more in that area. I focus on remote, wild areas with wide, open spaces and elevation. Otherwise, your view is just one tree after another the whole, damned way--yawn! That's why I've only done a dozen or so hikes on the Oregon side of the Gorge. If you are willing to break the one-hour-driving barrier, you'll see your options explode into much higher numbers and the crowds fade away.
A trail that's got it all is Saddle Mountain, which I did again last Friday. It'll be up on my hiking blog soon. The first time I was there, it was so socked in with moisture and clouds, I couldn't see twenty feet in front of me the entire way. My hiking companion kept whining, "There really IS a view, honest!" but all I saw that day was grey and ravens. Well, last Friday, it was mostly sunny and, Oh, Mama, what a freakin' view! From the summit, you can see the ocean, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Baker, and something snow covered very far away to the east--the Blue Mountains, maybe. You are literally surrounded by snow capped volcanoes. Caveat: very crowded on peak days, not for the acrophobic, poison oak and other nasties abound, a relatively easy trail that attracts a high Idiot Factor. Still, it's close enough to the coast that you can polish off the hike and then cruise down to the beach to dangle your tootsies in the chilly waves.
If you want seclusion, pick any hike and do it on a Tuesday. When it's raining. In November.
So, do you want elevation or distance? Silence or people? Ease or mud? Danger or safety? Mosquitoes or poison oak? Ha, ha, that last one was a trick question.
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