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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Peter Drucker

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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible

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