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Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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 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 risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching

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