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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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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Attachment Business People
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

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