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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 best way to predict your future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER

Best Creation Future Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
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
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
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
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

Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
PETER DRUCKER

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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