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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.

Peter Drucker

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
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
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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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
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
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

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