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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
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
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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History Human Leadership Suffering
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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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