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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

Peter Drucker

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
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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Business Job Oneself Time
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem 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.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

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