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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

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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Drive Future Light Night Road
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
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
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
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing

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