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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

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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision

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