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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker

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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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 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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result

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