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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop 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
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
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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 surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
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

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