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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.

Peter Drucker

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
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
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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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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

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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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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