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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.4.27 The Change Leader Introduction: One Cannot Manage Change One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it. We do not hear much anymore about “overcoming resistance to change,” which ten or fifteen years ago was one of the most popular topics of management books and management seminars. Everybody has accepted by now that “change is unavoidable.” But this still implies that change is like “death and taxes”: It should be postponed as long as possible, and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheavals, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. To be sure, it is painful and risky, and above all it requires a great deal of very hard work. But unless it is seen as the task of the organization to lead change, the organization——whether business, university, hospital and so on——will not survive. In a period of rapid structural change, the only ones who survive are the change leaders. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter3》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)