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

Peter Drucker

What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right

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