If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
PETER DRUCKERTrying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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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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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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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 no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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