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

Peter Drucker

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time

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