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Peter Drucker

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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Excellence Improvement
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
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
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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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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

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