History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
PETER DRUCKERManagement is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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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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Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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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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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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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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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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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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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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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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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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The computer is a moron.
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