Peter Drucker Quotes

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• The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and…
• The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here,…
• Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
• Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
• Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development…
• It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
• Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?
• What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?
• You cannot predict the future, but you can create it.
• No one has ever failed to find the facts they are looking for.
• Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes.…
• Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things…
• One either meets or one works.
• The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.
• Culture eats strategy for breakfast,
• Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve…
• Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in…
• Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
• Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
• Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

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