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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Peter Drucker

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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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Believe Himself Ideas People
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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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Danger Result True Wrong
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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