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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.

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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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner

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