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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.

Peter Drucker

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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 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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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

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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