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Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter Drucker

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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