Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, March 6, 2019 – Peter Drucker
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, March 6, 2019 – Peter Drucker
“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
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“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 or information.”
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“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
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“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
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“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”
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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
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“The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.”
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“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
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“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
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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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“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
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“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
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“Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance.”
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“A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.” The Practice of Management (1954)
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“It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, …The enterprise must demand it of him.” The Practice of Management (1954)
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“The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights–and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America’s veterans–signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.” Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995)
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“Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.”
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“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”
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“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
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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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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
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“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
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“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
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“Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.”
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“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”
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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”
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“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”
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‘Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
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“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
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“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
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“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
Wikipedia: Peter Drucker