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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

The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
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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Alone Person Strength Weakness
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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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Business Excitement
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
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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Danger Result True Wrong
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right

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