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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.

Peter Drucker

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
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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Business Excitement
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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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Absence Life People Problem
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite

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