Peter Drucker Quotes

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.

Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.