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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

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
PETER DRUCKER

Power Privilege Responsibility
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
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation 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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
PETER DRUCKER

Decision Oneself Rule
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
PETER DRUCKER

Character Leadership Result

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