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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

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.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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