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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

Peter Drucker

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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

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