Quotes by Management Consultants - Page 2

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.
Robert K. Greenleaf
Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.
Mary Parker Follett
The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.
Peter F Drucker
Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.
Robert K. Greenleaf
The only antidote to the unnerving effects of such incoherence is integrity. People and organizations with integrity are wholly themselves. No aspect of self stands different or apart. At their center is clarity, not conflict. When they go inside to find themselves, there is only one self there.
Margaret Wheatley
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Peter F Drucker
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
Peter F Drucker
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.
Peter F Drucker
Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
Peter F Drucker
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.
Margaret J. Wheatley
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
Peter F Drucker
Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.
Peter F Drucker