The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
PETER DRUCKERThe 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.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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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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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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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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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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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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