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

Peter Drucker

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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself

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