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 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum was held on November 16-17, 2017 at the Hall of Sciences in Vienna. This is the selection of Top 44 Quotes from Global Peter Drucker Forum 2017.

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4. Quotes selected by: Vladimir Vulić
Peter Drucker Society Europe - Individual Member
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5. “Don’t expect simple answers from Global Peter Drucker
Forum. But, expect to be inspired and equipped with better
questions we can all ask. There are no 5-step-recipes to
growth and inclusive prosperity.” Richard Straub

6. “Without purpose and meaning there is dysfunction
in society and business.” Jenny Darroch

7. “External change has always been faster than the
organization can internalize them.” Lisa Hershman

8. “Most problems that come to us have already been
framed, that way limiting our solution space. Is there
a different way to look at this problem itself? Try to
start at the beginning - reframe!” Thomas Wedell

9. “An important question for every manager is: ‘How
many barriers do people have to crash through to
have a real conversation with you?’” Hal Gregersen

10. “We need to transform business education,
because currently, once you’re finished,
you’ll be worse off prepared for business
than when you started.” Roger Martin

11. “To get the kind of inclusive prosperity we want, we
need models that have real people in them, not just
cardboard cutouts of real people.” Roger Martin

12. “The economic benefits of globalization are
often severely understated.” Pankaj Ghemawat

13. “When the world’s poor see growth as
salvation, ‘Is growth an imperative?’ is
not a valid question.” Anil Gupta

14. “We need a new narrative for growth as
well as new metrics.” Martin Reeves

15. “HR, as it’s practiced today, is almost
not fit for purpose.” Julia Hobsbawm

16. “As we move from organisations to networks, purpose
will become incredibly important as the reason we
come together around an objective.” Nilofer Merchant

17. “Economic prosperity has to be a joint leadership
effort for the good of community.” Neila Benzina

18. “Entrepreneurship is not a silver bullet, but it suddenly
became a lever which we can use to address high
rates of youth unemployment.” Joseph Ogutu

19. “Manufacturing has to be at the core of any conversation
around growth in the developing world.” Irene Yuan Sun

20. “Without green growth there is no
inclusive growth.” Haiyan Wang

21. “We're moving from a ‘know it all’ era
to a ‘learn it all’ era.” Rahaf Harfoush

22. “With the rise of technology we need to develop the
human skill of when and how to use the technical tools
and algorithms around us and when not to.” Erica Dhawan

23. “Technological breakthroughs tend to get disproportionate
credit for progress. Social and regulatory innovation
possibly play an even bigger role.” Julia Kirby

24. “My vision of ‘Digital Economy’ didn’t turn
out as positive as I thought. This new
‘Digital Feudalism’ is scary.” Don Tapscott

25. “What we call the ‘Sharing Economy’ is actually not about
sharing. Uber and similar companies are not sharing. They
are successful, because they don’t share.” Don Tapscott

26. “Unleashing innovation in big organisations
could also be called ‘How to Not Waste
Human Potential’.” Alexander Osterwalder

27. “Startups are now designed and
focused on breaking the law in order
to disrupt your industry.” Steve Blank

28. “’Playing to Win’ vs ‘Playing Not to Loose’ is
the difference between startups and
established corporate leaders.” Bill Fischer

29. “Our moral compass will continuously be challenged
and discussed as technology evolves. We need a
moral compass, but we will have deep problems
defining what it is in a digital future.” Ashok Krish

30. “There is nothing sexy, or cool, or
awesome about innovation. Innovation is
scary, and uncomfortable.” Efosa Ojomo

31. “The success of so called ‘tech’ companies does
not come from technology, but from changing the
way sectors are structured.” Michael G. Jacobides

32. “We need to rethink globalisation in a much more
inclusive and distributed way. But not in terms of
the market - in terms of competences.” Yves Doz

33. “Managers have to grow their firms fast enough
to avoid an activist takeover, but slow enough to
avoid Dutch-tulip level frothiness.” Rita McGrath

34. “Growth happens when there is access
to opportunity.” Isabella Mader

35. “Leadership education should increase proportion
of time spent on context and dynamics rather
than on content.” Heiko Hutmacher

36. “The best leaders know how to manage oneself,
and how to nurture and cultivate teams through
a humanistic approach.” Julia Wang

37. “CEOs should not only manage their businesses, but
speak up on social and political issues, being influencers
in a broader socioeconomic context.” Santiago Iniguez

38. “Low employee engagement and the fact that so
many people hate their jobs are not just a business
failure, but a moral failure as well.” Sydney Finkelstein

39. “The future of your business depends on thinking,
which is scary, since it can’t be required,
standardized, or even measured.” Tammy Erickson

40. “If you want to make a positive impact on your employees
create an experience that caters to their physical,
cognitive, and emotional well-being.” Guillaume Alvarez

41. “We need to disrupt the onboarding process by
starting to share the purpose of our business -
the ‘why’ of our company.” Joan Snyder-Kuhl

42. “We need cheap and universal ICT to substantially
increase the proportion of intangibles in GDP and
in lifestyles.” Carlota Perez

43. “If you can’t describe your company’s
value proposition, you don’t understand
what you are doing.” Curt Carlson

44. “We need more business and thought leaders.
There has been a void in boardroom talk
about the human aspect.” Ali Rushdan Tariq

45. “Next year, will we be able to look back on the first Drucker
Forum and see what changes have actually happened since,
or is this just talk for the elites in the room?” Andrew Hill

46. “If the organisation were digitized and only run through
numbers it would be a very dreary place - a prison for
the human soul. We must be careful our humanity is not
swamped by the digital revolution.” Charles Handy

47. “At first I thought we need a Charter of Humanity. But
would it be enough? No, we need a cultural revolution and
completely rethink what we are doing.” Charles Handy

48. “Humanity needs to manage better what it
has created and leave behind the role of
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Richard Straub

49. See you in Vienna at the 10th anniversary of
Global Peter Drucker Forum,
on November 29-30, 2018!

50. Vladimir Vulić
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