The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
Peter DruckerRead
Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
Interpretation
Brilliance alone does not guarantee success; consistent effort is essential.
This quote by Peter Drucker emphasizes that having brilliant ideas or insights is not enough to achieve significant results. True achievement comes through diligent and systematic work that transforms those insights into effective action. It serves as a reminder that hard work complements intelligence and creativity in ensuring that ideas are successfully realized.
In practice
In a motivational speech about achieving dreams, you could say, 'Remember, brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual without hard work.'
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
The basic economic resource - the means of production -_x000D_ _x000D_ is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor._x000D_ _x000D_ It is and will be knowledge.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill
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