Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
PETER DRUCKERSuccess in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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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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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 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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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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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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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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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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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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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 best way to predict your future is to create it.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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The computer is a moron.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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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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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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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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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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