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

Peter Drucker

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
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

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

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