To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. … - Peter Drucker

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I'm so aware of the fact that if I hadn't taken the chances that I've taken along the line, I probably wouldn't be getting the best out of my voice anymore, I might have messed it up in that awful, predictable place.

Peter Drucker

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

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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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