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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.

Peter Drucker

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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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

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