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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

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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