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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

Peter Drucker

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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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Secret Time Worth
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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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Opportunity Problem Result
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
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
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself

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