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.
PETER DRUCKERInnovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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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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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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The computer is a moron.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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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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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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What’s measured improves.
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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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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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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.
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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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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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