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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.

Peter Drucker

What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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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History Human Leadership Suffering
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
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
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible

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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