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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

Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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

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