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The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker

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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter Drucker

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Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Peter Drucker

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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. Peter Drucker

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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter Drucker

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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. Peter Drucker

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

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Anthony Kissoon added Culture eats strategy for breakfast

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. Peter Drucker

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Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. Peter Drucker

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future. Peter Drucker

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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. Peter Drucker

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. Peter Drucker

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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Peter Drucker

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

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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. Peter Drucker

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Peter Drucker

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try. Peter Drucker

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My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource. Peter Drucker

Natural Beauties Who Don't Need No Make-Up

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else. Peter Drucker

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed Peter Drucker

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter. Peter Drucker

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INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation. Peter Drucker

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker

Celebrities Who You Probably Never Noticed Have Wonky Eyes

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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. Peter Drucker

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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. Peter Drucker

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter Drucker

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Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration. Peter Drucker

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. Peter Drucker

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem. Peter Drucker

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Decision making is the specific executive task. Peter Drucker

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The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. Peter Drucker

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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter Drucker

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. Peter Drucker

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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. Peter Drucker

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davidkirzner added “Planning does not substitute facts for judgment nor science for leadership. It recognizes the importance of analysis, courage, experience, intuition—even hunch. It is responsibility rather than technique.”

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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. Peter Drucker

1 104 6 The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker

2 115 9 The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. Peter Drucker

3 33 1 Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. Peter Drucker

4 52 3 The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. Peter Drucker

6 41 2 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. Peter Drucker

7 73 6 There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

8 26 1 Anthony Kissoon added Culture eats strategy for breakfast

9 44 3 So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker

10 62 6 Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. Peter Drucker

11 62 6 Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better. Peter Drucker

12 23 1 Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future. Peter Drucker

13 36 3 Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. Peter Drucker

15 28 2 There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Peter Drucker

16 50 7 Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker

17 28 3 The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. Peter Drucker

18 31 4 Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Peter Drucker

19 22 2 The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try. Peter Drucker

20 22 2 My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker

22 25 3 The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker

23 24 3 Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else. Peter Drucker

24 19 2 Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed Peter Drucker

25 20 4 The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker

26 12 1 What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter. Peter Drucker

28 14 2 The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker

29 13 2 Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. Peter Drucker

30 14 3 The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. Peter Drucker

31 15 4 Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter Drucker

32 14 4 Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration. Peter Drucker

33 18 9 Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. Peter Drucker

34 9 2 The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem. Peter Drucker

35 9 2 Decision making is the specific executive task. Peter Drucker

36 10 3 The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done. Peter Drucker

37 9 3 When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter Drucker

38 5 0 Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. Peter Drucker

39 10 5 Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. Peter Drucker

40 3 0 davidkirzner added “Planning does not substitute facts for judgment nor science for leadership. It recognizes the importance of analysis, courage, experience, intuition—even hunch. It is responsibility rather than technique.”

41 4 6 We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. Peter Drucker

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