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A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

Peter Drucker

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
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
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership 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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership 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

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