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.
PETER DRUCKERThe problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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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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The computer is a moron.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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What’s measured improves.
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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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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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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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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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