If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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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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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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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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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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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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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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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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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A 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.
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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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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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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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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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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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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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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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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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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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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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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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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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