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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Peter Drucker

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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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Opportunity Problem Result
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important

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