Effectiveness must be learned.
PETER DRUCKERThe best way to predict your future is to create it.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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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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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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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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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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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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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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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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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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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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If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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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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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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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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The computer is a moron.
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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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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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