Peter Drucker Quotes About Focus
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Focus on opportunities, not problems.
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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.
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The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.
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The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.
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If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.
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The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
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