Best Knowledge Management Quotes

#1. To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Denise Moreland

#2. The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

Warren Bennis

#3. The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.

Peter Drucker

#4. Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Maimonides

#5. While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

Michael Polanyi

#6. The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.

Ajeet Pratap Maurya

#7. There is no knowledge without theory.

W. Edwards Deming

#8. Knowledge management will never work
until corporations realize it's not about
how you capture knowledge but
how you create and leverage it.

Etienne Wenger

#9. Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#10. ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.

Tony Dovale

#11. To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

W. Edwards Deming

#12. Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter ... are matters of your heart.

Tony Dovale

#13. It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills.

Robert Manning

#14. Employees who are controlled cannot respond caringly, you need superior knowledge and real leadership, not management. Because of this we specifically developed a selection process for leaders; we don't hire managers.

Horst Schulze

#15. Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Alan G. Robinson

#16. One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

Henrik Fisker

#17. The best predictor of how much work a knowledge worker will accomplish is not the hours that he or she spends, but the days. The twelve-hour days don't accomplish any more than the eight-hour days. Overtime is a wash.

Tom DeMarco

#18. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Peter Drucker

#19. Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming

#20. Knowledge is the key.

W. Edwards Deming

#21. The essence of management is to make knowledge productive.

Peter Drucker

#22. And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

Bill Gates

#23. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)

Tony Dovale

#24. A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Peter Drucker

#25. almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge.

Neil Postman

#26. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

Peter Drucker

#27. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

Mark W. Boyer

#28. The game is never over. The universe has a pretty good knowledge management system and stores every new idea, every innovation ever attempted in its bottomless ledgers.

Rohit Prasad

#29. You do not install knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming

#30. Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Peter Drucker

#31. Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming

#32. To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking.

Jurgen Appelo

#33. You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.

W. Edwards Deming

#34. Corporate brand, culture, knowledge, and risk management are all boardroom concerns.

Pearl Zhu