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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker

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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Believe Himself Ideas People
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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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Customer Himself Understand
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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Danger Result True Wrong
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself

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