No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
PETER DRUCKERThe purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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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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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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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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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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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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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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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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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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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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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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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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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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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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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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