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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.

Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
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 less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
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 Job Oneself Time
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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

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