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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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

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