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

Peter Drucker

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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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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History Human Leadership Suffering
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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

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