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Management:
It is futile to try to guess what products and processes the future will want. But it is possible to decide what idea one wants to make a reality in the future, and to build a different business on such an idea.
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Management:
…a large proportion of business ideas are effective. Innovating managers have, therefore, had a good deal more impact as a group than the historians realize.
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Management:
Great entrepreneurial innovations have been achieved by converting an existing, theoretical proposition into an effective business.
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Management:
The basic entrepreneurial idea may merely be imitation of something that works well in another country in another industry.
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Management:
To make the future happen one need not… have a creative imagination. It requires work rather than genius – and therefore is accessible in some measure to everybody.
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Management:
To make the future happen one has to be willing to do something new.
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Management:
The resources that should be invested in making the future happen should be small, but they must be of the best. Otherwise nothing happens.
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Management:
…unless an organization can be built on [social reform], it is not a valid entrepreneurial idea. The test of the idea is… economic performance and economic results.
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Management:
To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
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Management:
…tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And then even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future.
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