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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

The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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.
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Absence Life People Problem
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time

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