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.
PETER DRUCKERIf you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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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 decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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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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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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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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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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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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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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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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