There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
PETER DRUCKEREffectiveness must be learned.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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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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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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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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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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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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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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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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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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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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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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