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Peter Drucker Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: November 19, 1909 - November 11, 2005

Birthday: November 19

Death: November 11

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 Drucker

source: Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.12, Harvard Business Review Press

topic: Jobs, Skills, Numbers, Knowledge Workers

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