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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Peter Drucker

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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