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A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

Peter Drucker

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
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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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

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