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The computer is a moron.

Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
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

The computer is a moron.

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