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 7th Global Peter Drucker Forum was held on November 5-6, 2015 at the Hall of Sciences in Vienna. This is the selection of Top 33 Quotes from Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015. Vladimir Vulic, November 2015

1. 33 Top Quotes from
Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015

2. Quotes selected by: Vladimir Vulic
@vulicvladimir

3. “Global Peter Drucker Forum in not so much about better
answers as it is about better questions.” - Richard Straub

4. “The job of leadership is to identify the future
which is already happening.” - Joseph A. Maciariello

5. “As the pace of technology quickens, interest is growing
in ‘what makes us tick in the brain’ as humans.” - Andrew Hill

6. “Most CEOs are humans, so why act as if you are on the
side of robots? The robots are already powerful enough -
they don’t need CEOs on their side.” - Tom Davenport

7. “Focus on values, culture & purpose of the organisation,
then trust the kids to get it right.” - Marten Mickos

8. “We work in a world where most of the people you
manage are NOT your employees.” - Charles-Edouard Bouée

9. “Amidst rapid technological change, some things should remain
stable: core strategy, culture, and core values.” - Rita Gunther McGrath

10. “With all this obsession with things that
change, we don't notice what's not changing.
Most things are not changing.”- Henry Mintzberg

11. “We don’t deal with the realities of management because we’re
so obsessed with the myth of management.” - Henry Mintzberg

12. “Whoever is on stage, they cannot compete with
the knowledge and experience of the audience in
the room, let alone the audience online.”- Robin Chase

13. “The real disruption happening now is not about the
technology - it's a profound shift in trust.”- Rachel Botsman

14. “All these online sharing platforms are little phenomena for
a big question about a jobless future.” - Oussama Ammar

15. “We can’t forget 200 years of work standards
and minimum wages and just expect the
platforms to regulate themselves.”- Isabella Mader

16. “Not only do we have to reinvent our organisations,
but we have to reinvent ourselves as well.”- Bill Fischer

17. “Machines will take over much of the work that we
are doing today, displacing our work.”- Tammy Erickson

18. “The only role of a CEO is to create
other leaders.”- Kevin Roberts

19. “As long as there are problems (and there are lots of them), there
will be things for us humans to do.” - Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg

20. “We need more boredom in our lives. That empty
space is where we create new ideas.” - Rosanne Somerson

21. “Education is an amazing technology that rewires
individuals from instinct to civilization.” - Gianpiero Petriglieri

22. “We paint ‘Millennials’ as wanting different
things to avoid the shame that we cannot
promise them what we had.” - Gianpiero Petriglieri

23. “Hiring for competencies doesn’t work
anymore - jobs change too fast.”- Claudio Fernández-Aráoz

24. “We are so busy ‘connecting’ nowadays, that we
don't spend enough time communicating.” - Sherry Turkle

25. “We’re talking about claiming our humanity. Humanity isn’t all
good - let’s decide which side we want to claim.” - John Hagel III

26. “If you want to shape your own destiny, the technology
is allowing you to do that. Do you know yourself well
enough to shape your own destiny?”- Charles Handy

27. “We’re not educating the young for the future they will
face: being on their own, facing open problems, having a
nice lifestyle, and not making much money.” - Charles Handy

28. “We’re getting close to the end of this wonderful 400+
year run of the multinational corporation.” - Rick Goings

29. “Just because we can’t see how new technologies
will create more jobs, doesn’t mean that they
won’t create new jobs.”- Dambisa Moyo

30. “Our employees are entrepreneurs who can build on top of
our platform, and become shareholders later.” - Ruimin Zhang

31. “Many companies have silo mentality despite
the technology enabling connectivity.”- Gillian Tett

32. “Leadership is not based on being
clever, but on being consistent.”- Khuyen Bui

33. “Innovation isn’t an agenda point, it
should be the entire agenda. It should be
considered in everything you do.”- Steve Denning

34. “Workers are being more productive, but they’re
not being compensated.”- Lynn Forester de Rothschild

35. “I believe that the future is an engaged workforce.” - Jim Keane

36. Photo Credits: Gerald Mayer-Rohrmoser
www.mayer-rohrmoser.at

38. Vladimir Vulić
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