We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
Peter DruckerThere is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
Peter DruckerThe most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.
Peter DruckerI find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.
Peter Drucker