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Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral 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
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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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Opportunity Problem Result
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success 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
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

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