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.

Quote by Peter F Drucker

Topics: Foresight Quotes

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new...

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new...

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present...

Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present...

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results...

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results...

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time...

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time...

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's...

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's...

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to...

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to...

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of...

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of...

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who...

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who...

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results...

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results...

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's...

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's...

Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal...

Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal...

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.