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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
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
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
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result

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