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Peter Drucker

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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational 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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
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
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
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise

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