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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

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