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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Peter Drucker

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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Human People Strength Weakness
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
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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

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