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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.

Peter Drucker

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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth

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