When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
PETER DRUCKERA 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.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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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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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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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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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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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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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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What’s measured improves.
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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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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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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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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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