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

Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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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History Human Leadership Suffering
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
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation

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