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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

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
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
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology

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