The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
PETER DRUCKER, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Innovation, indeed, creates a resource. There is no such thing as a 'resource' until man finds a use for something in nature and thus endows it with economic value. Until then, every plant is a weed and every mineral just another rock.
PETER DRUCKER, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
You have to be prepared to make your innovation obsolete.
PETER DRUCKER, "Peter's Principles", Context Magazine, spring 1998
Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.
