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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Peter Drucker

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
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
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation

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