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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.

Peter Drucker

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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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History Human Leadership Suffering
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite

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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