Quotes by Management Consultants - Page 2

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
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter F Drucker
For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.
Robert K. Greenleaf
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
Robert Heller
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
Peter F Drucker
It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because ofthe need to assuage an unusual power drive.
Robert Greenleaf
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter F Drucker
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F Drucker
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
Peter F Drucker
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Peter F Drucker
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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 knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
Peter F Drucker
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F Drucker
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.
Robert K. Greenleaf