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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Peter Drucker

The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
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
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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Attachment Business People
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.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money

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