People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
PETER DRUCKERManagement is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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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 executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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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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The computer is a moron.
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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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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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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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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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Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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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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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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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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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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