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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

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational 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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People

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