The Global Peter Drucker Forum is an international management conference dedicated to the management philosophy of Peter Drucker. Drucker, who lived from 1909 to 2005, was a management professor, writer, and consultant, frequently referred to as a "management guru." The Forum is held annually in November, in Drucker's home town of Vienna, Austria and is put on by the Peter Drucker Society Europe, an affiliate of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. (source: Wikipedia) The 8th Global Peter Drucker Forum was held on November 17-18, 2016 at the Hall of Sciences in Vienna. This is the selection of Top 33 Quotes from Global Peter Drucker Forum 2016.

1. 33 Top Quotes

2. Copyright Notice
Photos from this presentation must not be
copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded,
posted, transmitted, distributed, or used for the
creation of derivative works without Peter
Drucker Society Europe’s prior written consent.
Please refer to the website for more information.
www.druckerforum.org/imprint/

3. Photos by: Gerald Mayer-Rohrmoser
www.mayer-rohrmoser.at

4. Quotes selected by: Vladimir Vulić
Peter Drucker Society Europe - Individual Member
@vulicvladimir

5. “It was not financial capitalism that changed
our world for the better. It was entrepreneurial
spirit and innovation.” Richard Straub

6. “Employees who are engaged, passionate and
autonomous will bring you results. Enable
their entrepreneurial spirit.” Lisa Hershman

7. “In an increasingly divided world we need
a common language.” Prabhu Guptara

8. “Is entrepreneurship a backup plan,
because corporations can’t do innovation
correctly internally?” Clayton Christensen

9. “Business schools need to offer a choice between an
MBC (Master of Business Creation) and an MBA
(Master of Business Administration).” Philip Kotler

10. “If we are scared of what we have seen from
globalization, then watch out. We have no idea
what is coming in the next 10 years.” Anil K. Gupta

11. “Nowadays, entrepreneurship is needed
even more in order to balance economic
and social shifts.” Roger Martin

12. “I am a believer that large organizations can
be entrepreneurial and innovative.” Bill Fischer

13. “Change in a large organization should not be like a
revolution, but like a giant hackathon.” Gary Hamel

14. “The biggest mistake companies make
is to apply tools for exploitation to
exploration.” Alex Osterwalder

15. “Leadership traits of Germany’s ‘Hidden Champions’
- 1) Authoritarian in the principles, 2) Participative
and flexible in the details.” Hermann Simon

16. “Be prepared to fail, to be criticized, and
to have your own job at risk.” Ralf Köster

17. “A lot of small and medium-sized enterprises
are still hesitating when it comes to digital
transformation.” Gisbert Rühl

18. “Hierarchy and bureaucracy do not have to go
together - you can have hierarchy of competence
rather than seniority.” Steve Denning

19. “Sometimes, that ‘Customer from Hell’ is in
deep pain that you just haven’t listened to. You
can learn a lot from them.” Vanessa Adams

20. “The role of the state should be more of an
’investor of first resort’, and less of a
‘lender of last resort’.” Mariana Mazzucato

21. “I am a pessimist about the future - I see
enormous destruction of jobs, concentration of
capital, and popular unrest.” Adrian Wooldridge

22. “Weaving entrepreneurial skills into education
is part of supporting citizens to succeed in
entrepreneurial society.” Eyal Kaplan

23. “We should do a better job of thinking about
all the people who don’t like ambiguity and
want direction.” Rita Gunther McGrath

24. “You can’t teach passion, hard work, energy. But
you can teach practical tools, and techniques for
entrepreneurial thinking.” Rita Gunther McGrath

25. “Creative competitiveness is a capacity
organizations have to create new ideas, to embrace
new ideas, and to act on them.” Tim Brown

26. “Leadership spaces must shift from ‘offices of
prestige’ to ‘offices of presence’.” Sara Armbruster

27. “Too much information creates deficit of
attention. Overemphasis on logic leads to
sterile decision making.” Julian Birkinshaw

28. “This seems to be a fantastic time to be a consumer,
but a terrible time to be a worker.” Sarah O’Connor

29. “Just as we offloaded toxic waste into the air and water,
companies are now offloading their responsibilities onto
society (social pollution).” Jeffrey Pfeffer

30. “You can expect workers to suffer quite a lot in
an economy dominated by more
entrepreneurial corporations.” Nicolas Colin

31. “We need a safety net for the
entrepreneurial society.” Tammy Erickson

32. “An excellent leader is the one that has
shifted from setting direction to
shaping context.” Rajeev Vasudeva

33. “Instead of ‘Fail fast to succeed early’, we should
‘Learn fast to succeed early’.” Curt Carlson

34. “Our goal was to reform the education system in
Tunisia from ‘education for employment’ to
‘education for self-employment’.” Tawfik Jelassi

35. “I believe that every activity in every organization
(company, NGO, government...) will have to
become an exploration activity.” John Hagel

36. “We should remember, as we fetishize
disruption, that it disrupts real people
with real families.” Maëlle Gavet

37. “Global Peter Drucker Forum is about creating a
community of people who care - not just about business,
but about society as a whole.” Richard Straub

38. See you at Global Peter Drucker Forum 2017,
on 16-17 November 2017!

39. Vladimir Vulić
To connect, please visit:
www.vanja.me