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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.

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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay

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