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.


Managing Oneself (ed. Harvard Business Review Press, 2008) - ISBN: 9781633691018

Peter Drucker Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...