A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
PETER DRUCKERThere is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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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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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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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.
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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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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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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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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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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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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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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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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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What’s measured improves.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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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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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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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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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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