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Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across." (Peter Drucker)
There is a point at which a transformation has to take place. View quote
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Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is. View quote
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The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other. View quote
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...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it. View quote
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...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it. View quote
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Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?" View quote
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. View quote
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Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. View quote
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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. View quote
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Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you. (Peter Drucker)
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. View quote
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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates. View quote
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All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow. View quote
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The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre. View quote
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Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant. View quote
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There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology, society, economy, and institutions. View quote
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Knowing Yourself ...We also seldom know what gifts we are not endowed with. We will have to learn where we belong, what we have to learn to get the full benefit from our strengths, where our weaknesses lie, what our values are. We also have to know ourselves temperamentally: "Do I work well with people, or am I a loner? What am I committed to? And what is my contribution?" View quote
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This is a political book... It has a political purpose: to strengthen the will to maintain freedom against the threat of its abandonment in favor of totalitarianism. View quote
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Engineers speak half–jokingly about Murphy's Law: " If anything can go wrong, it will." But complexity stands under a second law as well. Let me call it Drucker's law: "If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time." View quote
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The large industrial enterprise is... the representative institution of an industrial society. It determines the individual's view of his society. (Peter Drucker)
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who had to worry about where his next meal was coming from. View quote
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Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. View quote
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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. View quote
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. View quote
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