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

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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
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
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
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
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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

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