Over 500 scientists and managers from around the world met on Thursday, the 5. and Friday, the November 6, 2015 at the Aula der Wissenschaft in Vienna to discuss one of the most exciting questions of our time:
What impact does increasing digitalization have on employees, management and customers.
How do we deal with the disruptions in all areas of business and society?
Perhaps one thing first: it is human empathy, coupled with creativity and intelligence, that is gaining in importance.
Peter Drucker is probably the greatest management thinker of all time and his teachings are more valid than ever. Why is that? He was the first to show that management can be learned: Manager is a profession, not a vocation. And like no other, Peter Drucker made it clear that managers have a social responsibility and that management is an issue for society as a whole - in companies, institutions and administrations.
It is interesting that the scientific findings of Peter F. Drucker, who emigrated from Austria to the USA, are becoming increasingly important today.
Drucker anticipated many developments in our globalized and digitalized economy back in the 1970s.
He was an advisor to American presidents, international corporations and organizations, and not without good reason.
You can also find the speakers and programme of the forum at https://www.druckerforum.org

"We are becoming aware that the major questions regarding technology are not technical but human questions."

Peter F. Drucker

highlights and thought fragments
Instead of a summary of the forum, which will soon be available as a video download on the Drucker Society website anyway, we have summarized the most important statements and quotes from the panel guests for you, without going into detail about the individual authors. Our quote splitter is simply meant to inspire further thought.

"Managers who fear cannot lead, at most they can organize."

"Millennials aren't afraid of the future, they're just afraid of what the 'old guys' left behind."

"The only thing that will remain future remains unchanged  is change."

"Change is overestimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term."

"A new culture of work is emerging."

"Conditional on global interconnectedness, people are getting a new sense of self."

"We are all digital immigrants as far as the Internet is concerned."

"Every day, millions of people think about making the world a better place."

"airbnb has grown in 4 years to become the largest hotel operator in the world without ever having built a single hotel room, let alone a let alone financed."

"Humans are not capable of multitaskingbut at most capable of rapid task switching."

"Industrial trust was not designed for the collaborate age."

"Apple, Google, Facebook & Co - they just facilitate others to do great things!"

"Taxes will go down. How to finance the future?"

"Most of millennials will not get rich. But they have a nice lifestyle full of relationships."

"It's not the age of big data, but of big emotion and empathy."

"Face-to-face communication is the most humane and humanizing communication."

"You need to smell the person!"

peter drucker on managers and management.
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Here are some quotes for inspiration: enjoy reading the quotes :-)

"The rise of management as an organizational discipline arguably is the most important business development of the 20th century." Peter F. Drucker

"Large, complex organizations ultimately will fail  without professional management." Peter F. Drucker

"Professional managers aid in planning and developing their firms' basic missions." Peter F. Drucker

"They set objectives for employees, organize processes, communicate important information, track performance and help associates develop." Peter F. Drucker

"The ideal manager is a 'working boss' rather than just a 'coordinator' of others work." Peter F. Drucker

"Knowledge workers need managers to maximize their productivity." Peter F. Drucker

"Decision making is a manager's stock-in-trade. Focus on their decisions'quality, not their quantity." Peter F. Drucker

"Managing the boss is a critical component to every manager's success." Peter F. Drucker