Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
PETER DRUCKERPeople 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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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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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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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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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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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 has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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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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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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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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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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