Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
PETER DRUCKERIt is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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What’s measured improves.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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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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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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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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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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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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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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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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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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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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The computer is a moron.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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