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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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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Danger Result True Wrong
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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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Absence Life People Problem
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement

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