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One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

Peter Drucker

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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy

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