"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough."
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"Effective management always means asking the right question."
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"The first myth of management is that it exists."
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"The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill."
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"The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."
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"Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake."
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"If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it."
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"If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail."
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"If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly."
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"Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs."
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"No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong."
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"All good management is the expression of one great idea"
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"In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus."
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"No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers."
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"Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained."
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"Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human activity. Like cooking, it rests on a degree of organisation and on adequate resources. But just as no two chefs run their kitchens the same way, so no two managements are the same."
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"Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time."
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"No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back."
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"Either an executive can do his job or he can't."
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"Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to."
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