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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

What’s measured improves.
PETER DRUCKER

Improvement One Liner
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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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Human People Strength Weakness
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER

Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
PETER DRUCKER

Business Job Oneself Time
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
PETER DRUCKER

Character Leadership Result
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKER

Education Important
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
PETER DRUCKER

Business Innovation
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER

Best Creation Future Yourself
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
PETER DRUCKER

Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
PETER DRUCKER

Believe Himself Ideas People
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
PETER DRUCKER

Better Business Job Result
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
PETER DRUCKER

Eyes Job Yourself
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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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Secret Time Worth
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
PETER DRUCKER

Mistake People Risk

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