There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKERThis defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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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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The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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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 best way to predict your future is to create it.
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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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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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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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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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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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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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What’s measured improves.
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