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Peter Drucker

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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
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
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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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Customer Himself Understand
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself

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