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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter Drucker

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology

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