There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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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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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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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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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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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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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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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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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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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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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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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