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- Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
- Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances.…
- In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of…
- Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All…
- Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the…
- We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
- No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings…
- 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…
- If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a…
- No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst…
- 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…
- Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with…
- Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.
- Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.
- Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes.…
- Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization…
- It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
- As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
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