Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
PETER DRUCKERLike 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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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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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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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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Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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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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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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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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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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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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