"If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development."
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"Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively."
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"Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works."
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"Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems."
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"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
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"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."
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"Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality."
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"We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence."
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"Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach."
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"Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise."
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"In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge"
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"Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach ."
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"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
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"The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right."
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"Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all."
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"To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect."
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"In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill."
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"The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try."
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"Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does."
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"Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop."
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