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The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Peter Drucker

Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right

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