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Beyond Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions

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Peter Drucker believed the five most important questions you will ever ask about your organization are: What is our Mission? Who is our Customer? What does the Customer Value? What are our Results?… … Continue reading →

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How to See and Cure Sick Organizational Cultures

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Peter Drucker said, “The purpose of business is to create a customer.” Sick organizations: Sink inward rather than reach outward. Sick organizational cultures focus on themselves rather than customers. Everything that distracts, dilutes, or diverts from creating customers suggests sickness. Stop learning. Live in fear.

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The People You Try to Please Control You

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The people you try to please control you and your organization. Customers drive organizations, you don’t. Drucker said, “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” You are all about pleasing customers. Pleasing others, however, presents problems for you.

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How to Magnify the Impact of Your Strengths

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The man who always knows what people cannot do, but never sees what they can do, will undermine the spirit of the organization,” Peter Drucker. “A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

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How to See and Cure Sick Organizational Cultures

Leadership Freak

Peter Drucker said, “The purpose of business is to create a customer.” Sick organizations: Sink inward rather than reach outward. Sick organizational cultures focus on themselves rather than customers. Everything that distracts, dilutes, or diverts from creating customers suggests sickness. Stop learning. Live in fear.

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Leadership’s Greatest Value

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Problems that threaten organizations must be addressed, admittedly. Problems are giant black holes that capture focus, drain vitality, and divert resources. Solving problems seduces leaders away from future opportunities to focus on past inadequacies. You never build the future by [.].

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Leadership’s Greatest Value

Leadership Freak

Problems that threaten organizations must be addressed, admittedly. Problems are giant black holes that capture focus, drain vitality, and divert resources. Solving problems seduces leaders away from future opportunities causing them to focus on past inadequacies. You never build the [.].

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