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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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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Alone Person Strength Weakness
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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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Danger Result True Wrong
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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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Human People Strength Weakness
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search

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