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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter Drucker

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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 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
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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Believe Himself Ideas People
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
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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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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

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