The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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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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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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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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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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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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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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The computer is a moron.
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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