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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
PETER DRUCKER

Character Leadership Result
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
PETER DRUCKER

Opportunity Problem Result
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Drive Future Light Night Road
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER

Best Creation Future Yourself
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER

Difficult People

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

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