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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success 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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
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
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness

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