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

Peter Drucker

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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
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
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

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