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.
PETER DRUCKERPeople who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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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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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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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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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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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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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.
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A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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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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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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