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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.

Peter Drucker

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
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
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 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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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule

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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