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

Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result

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