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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.

Peter Drucker

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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