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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Peter Drucker

The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
PETER DRUCKER

Decision Oneself Rule
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
PETER DRUCKER

Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
PETER DRUCKER

Opportunity Problem Result
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
PETER DRUCKER

Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Drive Future Light Night Road
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 DRUCKER

Absence Life People Problem
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
PETER DRUCKER

Inspirational Stop Yourself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
PETER DRUCKER

Integrity Motivational Planning
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER

Greatness Quite
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
PETER DRUCKER

Excellence Improvement
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
PETER DRUCKER

Danger Result True Wrong
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER

Commitment Hope Planning Promise

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