The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
PETER DRUCKERThere is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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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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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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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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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.
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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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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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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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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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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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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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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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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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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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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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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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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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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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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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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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