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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.

Peter Drucker

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem 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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
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
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

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