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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

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
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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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History Human Leadership Suffering
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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