A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
PETER DRUCKERWhen a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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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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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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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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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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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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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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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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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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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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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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