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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future 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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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

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