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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

Peter Drucker

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result

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