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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
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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Opportunity Problem Result
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money

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