Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
PETER DRUCKERThe 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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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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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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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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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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If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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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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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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