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Drucker coined the term 'Knowledge Worker. ' He predicted that in the 21st century, the most valuable asset would not be capital or labor, but knowledge. He taught that 'knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. ' He viewed learning not as a phase of life, but as a lifelong requirement for relevance. 'The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills. '
"Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man. p. 121"
"Knowing Yourself ...We also seldom know what gifts we are not endowed with. We will have to learn where we belong, what we have to learn to get the full benefit from our strengths, where our weaknesses lie, what our values are. We also have to know ourselves temperamentally: "Do I work well with people, or am I a loner? What am I committed to? And what is my contribution?" Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself Leader to Leader, No. 16 (Spring 2000)"
"Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. I got my degree through E-mail, Forbes (June 16, 1997)"
"I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in. p. 295"
"The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century.We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world. p. 3"
"The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre. p. 147"
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