"What managers decide to stop doing is..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.
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“I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.”
“An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.”
“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”
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“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.”
“I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.”
“When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.”