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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

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
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
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 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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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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