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

Peter Drucker

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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
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
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible

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