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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.

Peter Drucker

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself

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.

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