Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

Peter Drucker
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  1. People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what they could accomplish in five years.

  2. The only way to predict the future is to create it

  3. The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

  4. One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

  5. Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

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