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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Peter Drucker

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
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
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important

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