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

Peter Drucker

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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time

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