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

Peter Drucker

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy

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

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