Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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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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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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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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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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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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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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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