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.
PETER DRUCKERIf there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
More Peter Drucker Quotes
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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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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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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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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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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History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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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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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Effectiveness must be learned.
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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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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 surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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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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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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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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