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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

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job 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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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

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