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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Peter Drucker

It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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

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