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.
PETER DRUCKEREffective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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 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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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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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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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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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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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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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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What’s measured improves.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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The computer is a moron.
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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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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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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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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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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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