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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value

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