Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
PETER DRUCKERA 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.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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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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Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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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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The computer is a moron.
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What’s measured improves.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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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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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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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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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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