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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Peter Drucker

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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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
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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

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