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Peter Drucker
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Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
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Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
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One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.
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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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The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
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Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.
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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. But they get nothing done.
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Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
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An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
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