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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

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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 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
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
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
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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

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