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Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

Peter Drucker

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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 man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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

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