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Decision Quotes by Peter Drucker
- Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.
- No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone's work assignment and responsibility.
- 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…
- 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…
- The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'
- More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
- One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
- Once the facts are clear the decisions jump out at you.
- The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.
- Decision making is the specific executive task.
- In areas where they are simply incompetent, smart executives don’t make decisions or take actions. They delegate.
- Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts…
- The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
- Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
- Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
- Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge…
- Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team…
- It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
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