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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.

Peter Drucker

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
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
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result

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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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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