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…if an enterprise fails to perform, we rightly hire not different workers but a new president.
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There are two more clear signals that an organization’s theory of the business is no longer valid. One is unexpected success… The other is unexpected failure… whether one’s own or a competitor’s.
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093 |
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That business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important single cause of business frustration and business failure.
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101 |
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…whoever contents himself to rise with the tide will also fall with it.
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103 |
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The future of business, of the economy, and of society will be influenced greatly by the way we solve or fail to solve the growing crisis of the unions.
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187 |
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A performance record must include mistakes. It must include failures. It must reveal a person’s limitations as well as strengths.
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281 |
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A management that does not define performance as a balance of success and failure over a period of time is a management that mistakes conformity for achievement, and absence of weaknesses for strengths.
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281 |
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Failure to go out and look at actual results is the leading reason for persisting in a course of action long after it has ceased to be appropriate or even rational.
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305 |
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If you fail to accept [the] responsibility of making sure that the appointee understands his or her new job, do not blame the new person if he or she ultimately fails. Blame yourself, for you have failed to do your duty as a manager.
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311 |
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A serious cause of business failure is the common assumption that conditions… must be what we think they are or at least what we thing they should be.
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