The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
PETER DRUCKERThere is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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The computer is a moron.
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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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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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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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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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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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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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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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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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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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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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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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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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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Effectiveness must be learned.
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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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