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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

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