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A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

Peter Drucker

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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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Excellence Improvement
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
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
A 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.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision

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