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

Peter Drucker

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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

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