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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

Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing

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