Claiming our Humanity - Managing in the Digital Age. 33 Top Quotes from Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015

Claiming our Humanity - Managing in the Digital Age. 33 Top Quotes from Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015

1. 1. 33 Top Quotes from Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015
2. 2. Quotes selected by: Vladimir Vulic @vulicvladimir
3. 3. “Global Peter Drucker Forum in not so much about better answers as it is about better questions.” - Richard Straub
4. 4. “The job of leadership is to identify the future which is already happening.” - Joseph A. Maciariello
5. 5. “As the pace of technology quickens, interest is growing in ‘what makes us tick in the brain’ as humans.” - Andrew Hill
6. 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. 7. “Focus on values, culture & purpose of the organisation, then trust the kids to get it right.” - Marten Mickos
8. 8. “We work in a world where most of the people you manage are NOT your employees.” - Charles-Edouard Bouée
9. 9. “Amidst rapid technological change, some things should remain stable: core strategy, culture, and core values.” - Rita Gunther McGrath
10. 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. 11. “We don’t deal with the realities of management because we’re so obsessed with the myth of management.” - Henry Mintzberg
12. 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. 13. “The real disruption happening now is not about the technology - it's a profound shift in trust.”- Rachel Botsman
14. 14. “All these online sharing platforms are little phenomena for a big question about a jobless future.” - Oussama Ammar
15. 15. “We can’t forget 200 years of work standards and minimum wages and just expect the platforms to regulate themselves.”- Isabella Mader
16. 16. “Not only do we have to reinvent our organisations, but we have to reinvent ourselves as well.”- Bill Fischer
17. 17. “Machines will take over much of the work that we are doing today, displacing our work.”- Tammy Erickson
18. 18. “The only role of a CEO is to create other leaders.”- Kevin Roberts
19. 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. 20. “We need more boredom in our lives. That empty space is where we create new ideas.” - Rosanne Somerson
21. 21. “Education is an amazing technology that rewires individuals from instinct to civilization.” - Gianpiero Petriglieri
22. 22. “We paint ‘Millennials’ as wanting different things to avoid the shame that we cannot promise them what we had.” - Gianpiero Petriglieri
23. 23. “Hiring for competencies doesn’t work anymore - jobs change too fast.”- Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
24. 24. “We are so busy ‘connecting’ nowadays, that we don't spend enough time communicating.” - Sherry Turkle
25. 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. 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. 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. 28. “We’re getting close to the end of this wonderful 400+ year run of the multinational corporation.” - Rick Goings
29. 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. 30. “Our employees are entrepreneurs who can build on top of our platform, and become shareholders later.” - Ruimin Zhang
31. 31. “Many companies have silo mentality despite the technology enabling connectivity.”- Gillian Tett
32. 32. “Leadership is not based on being clever, but on being consistent.”- Khuyen Bui
33. 33. “Innovation isn’t an agenda point, it should be the entire agenda. It should be considered in everything you do.”- Steve Denning
34. 34. “Workers are being more productive, but they’re not being compensated.”- Lynn Forester de Rothschild
35. 35. “I believe that the future is an engaged workforce.” - Jim Keane
36. 36. Photo Credits: Gerald Mayer-Rohrmoser www.mayer-rohrmoser.at
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