Peter Drucker Quotes
It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.
Drucker, Peter F. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles. Harper & Row, 1985, p. 142.
He traveled to Japan and stayed for the rest of his life and became a very respected Japanese writer. Japanese history had very periods of stability yet the Japanese progressed from a backward, insular, island nation to a highly technological, industrial, superpower in the presence of all the chaos and instability of government and society. The period after the Japanese defeat in the Second World War, has been the longest period of tranquility and stability in the history of Japan.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management".
