Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
PETER DRUCKERKeep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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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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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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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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What’s measured improves.
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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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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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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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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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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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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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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.
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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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