Peter Drucker Quotes

There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

Progress in a globally interdependent society relies more than ever on the unimpeded flow of information.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

In a world of dispersed authority, the battle for the truth will be won or lost with the employees.

If you don't share information among your startup's team, then it'll be just about a coincidence if product, marketing, and engineering are ever aligned. Those odds are too low to succeed.

Internet is a good and convenient device for us for easy communication. It has lots of value.

If it wasn't for the Internet, I don't know where I'd be.

Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

I think Twitter is kind of fun, it's not deep and it never will be, but it's a great way to communicate one-liners and to sort of see what people are laughing about. It's a terrific source of misinformation.

The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it's simply a few clicks away.

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.

What I wanted to do was give society the information it needed to decide if it wanted to change the system.

It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.