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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.

Peter Drucker

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy

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