Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've … - Peter Drucker

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Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.

Peter Drucker

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

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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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There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.

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An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. . . Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. . . . . The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

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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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Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

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Punishing achievement isn't gonna help anybody. Trying to equalize people by lowering the people at the top, that's not good. All that is is punitive. Why don't you find a way to elevate people at the bottom?

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