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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

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning

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