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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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