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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

Peter Drucker

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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral 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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
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
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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

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