Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
PETER DRUCKERThe 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.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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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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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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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.
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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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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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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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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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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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