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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.

Peter Drucker

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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