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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

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
PETER DRUCKER

Alone Person Strength Weakness
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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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Attachment Business People
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
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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Business Job Oneself Time
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
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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Excellence Improvement
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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History Human Leadership Suffering
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk

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