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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
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
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
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value

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