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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
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
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
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence 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
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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Business Excitement
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult 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
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

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