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 DRUCKERBy 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.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that 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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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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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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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard 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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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