The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
Peter DruckerRead
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.
Interpretation
The term 'guru' is often misused, suggesting that many labeled as such may not possess true expertise.
Peter Drucker critically examines the term 'guru', suggesting that it is frequently employed in a superficial manner, and implying that many of those referred to as gurus may not have the genuine knowledge or credentials that the title suggests. This statement underscores the need for discernment when evaluating those who claim authority in various fields, warning against being easily swayed by labels that may not signify true competence.
In practice
This quote can be used in a presentation to caution against blindly following so-called experts.
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
The basic economic resource - the means of production -_x000D_ _x000D_ is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor._x000D_ _x000D_ It is and will be knowledge.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.
The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
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