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The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

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The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

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