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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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 computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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

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