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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

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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
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
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement 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

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