A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

PETER DRUCKER

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A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

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Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.

PETER DRUCKER

Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
The best way to predict your future is to create it.

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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

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Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Man Oneself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits

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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

PETER DRUCKER

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

PETER DRUCKER

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

PETER DRUCKER

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Effectiveness must be learned.

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Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

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Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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