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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

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself

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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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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