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

Peter Drucker

Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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