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

Peter Drucker

Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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

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