One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
PETER DRUCKERUnless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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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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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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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?
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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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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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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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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.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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What’s measured improves.
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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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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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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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