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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Peter Drucker

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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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Customer Himself Understand
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result

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