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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

The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job 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
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
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
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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Absence Life People Problem
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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