A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
PETER DRUCKERFollow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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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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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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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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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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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