When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKERHistory has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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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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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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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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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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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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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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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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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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