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.
PETER DRUCKER
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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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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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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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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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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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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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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