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

Peter Drucker

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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
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 who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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 manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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

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