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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.

Peter Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep 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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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 surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite

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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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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