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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Peter Drucker

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
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
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
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

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