A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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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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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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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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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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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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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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The computer is a moron.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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