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

Peter Drucker

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
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
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

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