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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

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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Business Excitement
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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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Opportunity Problem Result
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

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