Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
PETER DRUCKEREffective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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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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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard 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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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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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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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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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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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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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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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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