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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

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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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Secret Time Worth
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
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible

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