Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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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What’s measured improves.
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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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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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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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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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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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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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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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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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