Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
PETER DRUCKERManagement 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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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The computer is a moron.
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A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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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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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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What’s measured improves.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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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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Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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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 manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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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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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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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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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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