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Managing oneself

by Peter Drucker



he must decide when to stop pushing the plan.


place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution.


The top spot requires a decision maker.


It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.


A small number of people know very early where they belong. Mathematicians, musicians, and cooks, for instance, are usually mathematicians, musicians, and cooks by the time they are four or five years old.


To work in an organization whose value system is unacceptable or incompatible with one's own condemns a person both to frustration and to nonperformance.


At first glance, it appears that the second church grows more slowly. But it retains a far larger proportion of newcomers than the first one does.


Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.


Do I produce results as a decision maker or as an adviser?


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