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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

Peter Drucker

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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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Excellence Improvement
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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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Attachment Business People
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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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Believe Himself Ideas People

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