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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

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 doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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 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
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
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
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

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